25 September 2013

David Fickling Books is incredibly happy and pleased and EXCITED to announce that good friend, Phil Earle will be joining the team in January 2014 as our brand spanking new Sales and Marketing Director.

Earle, aged 39, joined Bloomsbury in 2012 as Children's Sales Director.   He was formerly at Simon and Schuster and his first publishing role was at Random House Children's Books, following several years as a bookseller, both at Ottakars and W H Smith.

It was during his time at Random House that he worked as a key account manager for DFB and David discovered that if you “put a good book in Phil’s hands, the world is going to hear about it and want it.”

So it was inevitable that after the dust of going independent had settled David and Simon would approach Phil, who has said of joining DFB:

“I am leaving a terrific team at Bloomsbury, which in my view, speaks volumes about the brilliance of this opportunity. Working with David’s authors in the past - truly great writers like Siobhan Dowd, Philip Pullman and Jenny Downham - was the most rewarding experience of my career, so I’m incredibly excited to be joining DFB at the start of their new publishing journey.”

Bring on January!

Phil Earle