Reid leaves Quercus to join Doubleday as head of publicity

Milly Reid is leaving Quercus to join Transworld as head of publicity for Doubleday.

Currently senior publicity manager at Quercus, she will join the Transworld team on 5th December. 

Reid began her publishing career at Faber before joining Little, Brown, where she worked across the literary imprints Abacus, Corsair, Fleet and Virago and assisted on, among others, Jennifer Egan, Sarah Waters, David Sedaris, Roxane Gay and Val McDermid.  

Moving to Quercus in 2018, she worked across a variety of high-profile campaigns in literary fiction, commercial fiction, crime, narrative and big ideas non-fiction, recently covering parental leave in heading publicity for MacLehose Press, Quercus’s imprint for literature in translation.  

Her stand-out campaigns include the short story anthology My Pen is the Wing of a Bird by Afghan women and David Lagercrantz’s new standalone thriller. She has worked with Wellcome Book Prize-winning Maylis de Kerangal and done PR for brand author Lucy Diamond and queer romcom writer Laura Kay. She also worked on the feminist dystopian novel Widowland by C J Carey, and Holocaust survival memoir The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman. 

She has been shortlisted for multiple PPC awards including most recently Emily Ratajkowski’s global campaign for her debut My Body.   

Reid said: “I’m delighted to be joining the prominent literary imprint Doubleday at such an exciting time of growth. Doubleday publishes authors that have been incredibly important to me, including Curtis Sittenfeld and Maggie Shipstead and the list for 2023/2024 will undoubtedly include some of your favourite new reads. It’s an honour to be stepping up as head of publicity and working alongside the industry trailblazer Alison Barrow, from whom I can learn so much and whose campaigns I have admired for years.” 

Barrow, PR director at Transworld said: “We are all very excited to have Milly join us, to bring her especial talent, creativity and energy to our list of brilliant books and writers. Personally I am looking forward so much to learning from her considerable experience and insights into building high profile and influential campaigns which amplify profile and drive sales.”