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Pan Macmillan’s Sophie Brewer will take on rights responsibility as part of her associate publisher role for the publisher’s adult division.
Brewer, previously group rights director at Penguin for over a decade, has been associate publisher at Pan Mac since 2015, working with each adult imprint to improve editorial workflows. Her enhanced role will see her work closely with rights director Jon Mitchell and his team – which will include Ebury’s Mairead Loftus from next week - to acquire rights-led projects while targeting rights and co-edition sales.
It comes following international success for titles including Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt, that has now sold in the USA and 37 languages, and Bluebird’s bestseller Pinch of Nom, which has editions planned in the US and 15 other languages. The company has high hopes at Frankfurt for Tor’s dystopian Edinburgh-set fantasy novel The Library of the Dead by T L Huchu, Pan’s Confessions of a Forty Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter and Picador’s recently acquired 42.2 by John Connell, a meditation on running told in 42 chapters.
Publisher Jeremy Trevathan said: "As Pan Macmillan has grown in recent years the role of our subsidiary rights team in the adult division has become ever more vital and we believe it is key to our strategy for further growth. Sophie will bring additional strength and experience to the team, and she will work with our editors to develop partnerships with authors and agents to maximise the opportunities to invest in and exploit rights opportunities.”
Brewer added: "I'm absolutely delighted to be able to flex some rights muscles once again and work with Jon and his excellent team to bring rights further into focus across the company, developing strategies for both the acquisition and exploitation of those rights across all the imprints. It’s an incredibly exciting time to be published by Pan Macmillan and our aim is to mirror our UK growth internationally.”