Social justice and empowerment are Trotman’s passion. The books are bold, mission-driven commercial works. The imprint is committed to promoting equality, equity, and inclusion for all people. This includes BIPOC authors, all women, and any group that they believe deserves a spotlight. In 2020 she launched Legacy Lit, an imprint dedicated to books that give voice to issues, authors, and communities that have been marginalized, underserved, and overlooked. Krishan Trotman is the Vice-President, Publisher of Legacy Lit. Krishan Trotman VP and Publisher, Legacy Lit Add my leadership of the Editorial and Marketing/Publicity teams of Forever, our romance and women’s fiction imprint, and my own acquisitions in suspense/thiller, women’s fiction, historical fiction, and commercial nonfiction categories - well, like I said, a dream job. I work hand in glove with Editorial, Publicity, Marketing, and Sales to whip up enthusiasm for our books, and occasionally I get to say “mid-roll” in ebook meetings. Finding great voices and great stories is as thrilling today as it was back when I was an Editorial Assistant, and how exciting that in my role as Digital and Paperback Publisher, I get to explore a variety of ways to share books with readers. Lucky for me, that dream job has been mine for decades. In college, I dreamed of landing a job that would pay me to read. My favorites when I was growing up were The Arabian Nights and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and later Agatha Christie’s mysteries, P.G. I grew up in California, and I now live in Manhattan with my wife and our children.īeth deGuzman Senior VP, Deputy Publisher William Li, Admiral William McRaven, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, and theoretical physicist Sean Carroll. I have worked with the New York Times-bestselling novelists David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardner, Thomas Harris, Colleen Hoover, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Nicholas Sparks, Jonathan Tropper, and Scott Turow, and directed the acquisition and publication of bestsellers by Sally Field, Nick Offerman, Drew Barrymore, Brooke Shields, Dr. Martin’s Press, and HarperCollins Children’s Books. Prior to Grand Central, I was the Vice President and Publisher at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, which followed editorial roles at Simon & Schuster, St. The holistic view of the publishing process that I have been privileged to develop over the course of my years in the book business informs the Grand Central publishing process every day, and the excitement and enthusiasm that I witness over and over again within our group is the secret to Grand Central’s many successes. In my twenty-five years in publishing, I have been an editorial assistant, an editor, an editor-in-chief, and a publisher, working closely at each level with creative art directors and designers, tireless publicists, innovative marketers, and brilliant editorial colleagues. I am responsible for all aspects of our publishing activities for Grand Central and its imprints, including Balance, Forever, Legacy Lit, and Twelve. I’m Ben Sevier, the Executive Vice President and Publisher of Grand Central Publishing.
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