NEW YORK, February 27, 2015 – Anja Schmidt has been named Editorial Director of Oxmoor House, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment, Inc., the book and bookazine publishing division of Time Inc., effective March 2, 2015.

 

Schmidt will report to Margot Schupf, Publisher of Time Home Entertainment, and reporting into her will be the Editorial, Test Kitchen, and Creative teams at Oxmoor House.

 

Most recently Schmidt was US Publisher at Kyle Books where she built a list of cookbooks by American authors, which were in turn published and promoted into the UK market. Also during her time at Kyle Books, Schmidt acquired and edited such highly acclaimed cookbook titles as Healthy Latin Eating by Angie Martinez & Angelo Sosa, Jamie Deen’s Good Food, Simply Ming One-Pot Meals by Ming Tsai, and Olives, Lemons & Za’atar by Rawia Bishara. She also oversaw the Americanization and US publication of such notable UK authors as Darina Allen, Clodagh McKenna, Daniel Green and Maria Elia, and bestselling titles like The Meat Free Monday Cookbook and Share: The Cookbook that Celebrates Our Common Humanity.

 

Prior to her time at Kyle Books, Schmidt was Executive Editor at DK, where she worked on such high-profile cookbooks as the IACP Award winner and James Beard Award finalist Morimoto, and the IACP Award finalist The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri. She previously worked at Simon & Schuster—with New York Times best-selling authors President Jimmy Carter, Bob Woodward, and Stephen E. Ambrose—and HarperCollins.

 

 

About Time Home Entertainment, Inc.

 

Time Home Entertainment Inc. (THEI), the book publishing division of Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME), creates and leverages editorial content across multiple platforms, including books, bookazines, and e-books, in partnership with such Time Inc. brands as Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Life, Fortune, Essence, Southern Living, Cooking Light and Entertainment Weekly. THEI also publishes a range of books under licensed third-party brands like NBC Universal, MAD magazine, 21st Century Fox, and many more.

 

About Oxmoor House

 

Oxmoor House is an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc., a Time Inc. company (NYSE:TIME), and publishes books and special edition magazines for Time Inc. brands such as Southern Living, Cooking Light, Real Simple, and Sunset. Oxmoor House publishing partnerships also include Weight Watchers, Mayo Clinic, Cabot, and many others. With more than 300 back-listed titles, it is recognized as one of the leading lifestyle publishers in the country.

 

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CONTACT:

 

Courtney Greenhalgh

Associate Director of Publicity

Time Home Entertainment, Inc.

courtney.greenhalgh@timeinc.com

212-522-6350