Doris Cooper Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

Simon Element, an imprint of Simon & Schuster founded in 2021, publishes books addressing topics that are foundational to how we live—from the meals we eat to the relationships we nurture, the households we manage, and the personal and professional goals we set and strive to achieve.Simon Element books provide information, advice, and inspiration in visually dynamic forms from authorities with original ideas and deep expertise to guide readers on their path through life.

New York, United States

Content Strategy. Scouting. Idea-generating. Editing

New York, New York

Five-year turnaround strategy established Clarkson Potter, Penguin Random House’s 100-title, multimillion dollar lifestyle imprint, as the dominant lifestyle publisher with increased YoY sales and hundreds of New York Times bestsellers with commercial and award-winning content. • Evolved the imprint from dependence on cable and network TV talent to new media influencers, doubling sales of new authors. • Acquired and championed the biggest names in lifestyle publishing: Chrissy Teigen, Claire Saffitz of YouTube’s “Dessert Person”; Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, authors of The Home Edit (stars of Netflix’s “Get Organized with The Home Edit”); Toni Tipton Martin, James Beard Award-winner of Jubilee, NYT Columnist Melissa Clark, and Gina Homolka of the Skinnytaste online community, among others. • Doubled Potter Gift profitability. Was the first major publisher to add games + jigsaw puzzles (including Punderdome - 100k net) to the program.• Increased scale of Potter Gift's distribution, with presence in Target, Marmaxx stores, Barnes & Noble, and other important retailers. This established Potter Gift as the key player in the gift market and enabled the program to overtake the closest competition. • Was the first major publisher to add games and jigsaw puzzles to the program along with children’s products. With Sales, Design, and Production, identified consumer groups for new brand extensions and formats.• Increased sales of tentpole authors (Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, New York Times columnist Melissa Clark) while evolving the program from its dependence on old media platforms to new media.

New York, Ny

• Developed a successful 5-year strategic plan to broaden Potter's scope beyond cooking into narrative non-fiction, design, pop culture, and wellness. Curated portfolio to reflect a range of voices aligned with American content interests and demographics. • Developed publishing plans with marketing, sales, and business counterparts, which consistently delivered against aggressive growth targets. • Grew Potter's guided journal program into multi-million dollar business that included Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice by Michelle Obama, Susan Cain's Quiet Journal, Choose Kind Journal by R.J. Palacio, and the Q&A A Day and the Do One Thing Every Day franchises.• Acquired, published, and edited New York Times bestsellers including Dinner and Dinner in French by Melissa Clark, On The Street by Bill Cunningham, Tasty Latest and Greatest by Buzzfeed/Tasty, Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani, among others.

• Hired 9-person Editorial Department, shifting talent from traditional publishing to retail and sales and attracting editors who were entrepreneurial, collaborative, curious, and scrappy.• Acquired and edited books including all-time bestseller 50 Shades of Chicken, Trisha's Table by Trisha Yearwood, and New York Times bestsellers, It Was Me All Along: A Memoir by Andie Mitchell and Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and The Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr

• Responsible for 50-title publishing program dominated by Food Network talent, such as Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay. • Key participant in negotiation and acquisition of historic 10-book Martha Stewart publishing program, and edited Martha's Cooking School, Homekeeping, Martha Stewart's Cookies, Martha Stewart's Cupcakes, Everyday Food, among other titles.• Managed Editorial Department.

Acquired and edited lead titles with focus on branded authors driving wellness, self-help and personal finance categories and commercial fiction. Negotiated licenses with external partners for reprint. • Acquired controversial New York Times Bestseller The Surrendered Wife and Barnes and Noble “Discover Award” The Nature of Water and Air by Regina McBride• Authors included Boston Women's Health Book Collective (Our Bodies Ourselves), Beth Kobliner, The Motley Fool, and Chip Conley (The Rebel Rules: Daring to Be Yourself in Business).

Acquired 10-12 non-fiction and fiction titles. Edited lead titles and house authors for Senior Vice President, Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, Senior Editor.• Authors included Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, Queen Latifah, New York City Ballet, and The Smithsonian Institution

Ba, English, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: English Department Liaison; Captain, Varsity Squash

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