First Judith Regan was fired from HarperCollins after the O.J. Simpson/If I Did It debacle. And now they're scraping her name off the door and the parking spot:
News Corp.'s book division, HarperCollins Publishers, said Wednesday it's shutting down its Regan imprint in the wake of last month's firing of founder Judith Regan, whose attorney repeated a threat of imminent litigation in the matter.
"Effectively immediately, the Regan name will no longer be used and an interim logo, HC, will appear on all books published through summer," the company said.
In addition, the Regan office in Los Angeles will close as of March 1. Key operations had been moved there to allow the imprint to integrate book deals with film and TV productions.
Cal Morgan and several senior members of the Los Angeles office will return to the HarperCollins New York office, the unit said. Suzanne Wickham will stay on board as publicity director in Los Angeles.
In September, all books previously developed under the Regan umbrella will be assigned to appropriate HarperCollins imprints, the firm said.
Normally I feel sorry for a writer when he/she gets shuffled off to a new editor, but given Regan's stable of celebrity literati, I guess Kathie Lee Gifford and Rush Limbaugh will have to muddle on somehow.
(Good luck to Suzanne Wickham, who is a genuinely nice person...)
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