{"id":9125,"date":"2025-09-11T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/9125\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:50:14","slug":"severn-house-makes-promotion-and-appointment-within-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/9125\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn House makes promotion and appointment within editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/rights\/severn-house-snares-queer-dark-academia-thriller-by-alex-myers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severn House, an imprint of Canongate<\/a>, has appointed Sarah Delmege as senior commissioning editor and promoted Laurie Johnson to editorial director. Delmege will move to the press on 20th October\u00a0from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/sweet-cherry-launches-new-campaign-in-support-of-independent-bookshops-and-libraries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Cherry Publishing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Delmege said: \u201cI am absolutely thrilled and beyond excited to join Severn House. I\u2019ve long been a fan \u2013 and a reader \u2013 of their incredible list of authors. I cannot wait to become part of their amazingly talented, creative and passionate team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former senior commissioning editor Johnson joined\u00a0Severn House a year ago, and since then has been building her list with &#8220;new and exciting acquisitions that push the boundaries for Severn House&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to take the helm of the editorial list. It\u2019s such an exciting time for Severn House and I love being a part of the development as we shape its future. I\u2019m pleased to welcome Sarah to our wonderful team and I\u2019m looking forward to delivering more fabulous books by our exceptional authors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Severn House began as an independent publisher re-releasing out-of-print titles to the US and UK library markets, and celebrated\u00a0its 50th anniversary last year. It now publishes new works from a list of genre fiction authors such as Simon Brett, Paul Doherty and Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, as well as Adam Oyebanji, Esme Addison and Maria Dong.<\/p>\n<p>Severn House publisher Joanne Grant said: \u201cSarah has a wealth of experience and genuine passion for genre fiction. Combined with Laurie\u2019s editorial vision and expertise, I couldn\u2019t be more excited for the future of Severn House.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severn House, an imprint of Canongate, has appointed Sarah Delmege as senior commissioning editor and promoted Laurie Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}