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Sally Kim will join Little, Brown as president and publisher, succeeding Bruce Nichols, senior v-p, publisher since 2020, who will leave the company, effective March 1. Kim, who is currently senior v-p, publisher of G.P. Putnam's Sons, will start at Little, Brown, effective March 4, and will join Hachette Book Group's executive management board.
"I'm very excited to welcome Sally Kim, whose work I have long admired from across the Atlantic," said David Shelley, the Hachette UK CEO who additionally became CEO of HBG last November. "Sally has done an incredible job over her distinguished career and most recently as publisher at Putnam, achieving terrific success for their authors, and leading the team with calm integrity, dynamism, and heart. She is a brilliant editor as well as a publisher--in common with many of her predecessors at Little, Brown--and I love her editorial taste in fiction and nonfiction, as well as her publishing flair. I believe that Sally will be a visionary leader for Little, Brown and will help this most revered of publishing houses embark on an exciting new stage of its journey, working with the talented Little, Brown editorial, marketing, publicity, and design teams to attract and develop writers who speak to and represent the readers we serve."
Shelley added: "I'd like to pay tribute to the work Bruce has done in his four years as publisher of Little, Brown. In that time, he strengthened the publishing house's nonfiction list, bringing out #1 bestsellers by Liz Cheney, Don Lemon, and Clint Smith, and maximized the sales and impact of major marquee authors including Michael Connelly, Elin Hilderbrand, and James Patterson. He has nurtured, developed, and diversified the storied Little, Brown list with bestsellers from Nathan Harris, Tricia Hersey, Uma Naidoo, and Shawn Stevenson, among others, while bringing in exciting new voices in all categories--and great new editorial, marketing, publicity, and design colleagues to work on those books. I wish Bruce all the best in his next chapter."
In 2022, Poets & Writers honored Kim with the Editor's Award, which "recognizes a book editor who has made an outstanding contribution to the publication of poetry or literary prose over a sustained period of time." Prior to Putnam, she held senior editorial roles at Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, the Crown Publishing Group, and St. Martin's Press, in a career spanning 30 years.
Kim commented: "Like so many in book publishing, I've spent a lifetime reading and revering Little, Brown's illustrious books and authors; they were what drew me, an L.A. kid, to dare to make the leap to New York publishing all those years ago. Joining Little, Brown to help evolve its enviable legacy of finding and nurturing new voices at this, one of the most vibrant times in our industry and culture, is an incredible opportunity and truly an honor."