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Maria Rejt gets own Pan Mac imprint

25.01.10 | Benedicte Page

Pan Macmillan publishing director Maria Rejt is to head up a new imprint created "to reflect the breadth and distinctiveness of her personal taste."

The imprint, titled Mantle, will be a hardback and trade paperback imprint publishing up to 20 titles a year, encompassing general, crime, thriller and some literary fiction and a few non-fiction titles.

Mantle launches in May with Scott Turow's Innocent, a follow-up to Presumed Innocent, and many of Rejt's already established Macmillan, Pan and Picador authors will join it, with the 2010 list including C J Sansom, Kate Morton, Bella Pollen and Benjamin Black. New novels by M R Hall, Melanie McGrath and Minette Walters will follow in 2011.

Pan Mac m.d. Anthony Forbes Watson called Rejt "an extraordinarily gifted editor and publisher, a terrific colleague, and one of a kind," saying: "She has a rare eye for high quality writing with broad appeal, and an unstinting focus on her authors. Mantle is the perfect vehicle for her talents."

Rejt said having her own imprint was "an extraordinary and exciting responsibility" and that she was honoured in the authors who are joining her in the new venture. "I hope I will do them proud, build and extend their readerships even further, and publish them with passion, vigour and commitment," she added.

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