Regan Moves to California
No, not President Reagan (he's gone to a far, far better place!). Judith Regan, the publisher, is moving her company to Los Angeles.
Judith Regan's ReganBooks is an imprint of HarperCollins. HarperCollins is part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire.
In his Fresh Books blog, agent Matt Wagner bemoans the dearth of publishers in California. Well, as of now, Judith Regan is helping redress this issue. Regan is wildly successful, highbrow and lowbrow (sometimes both at the same time) and not afraid of controversy. What you may not realize is that she also peddles sex books. Her sex books use the same formula as her books that don't concern sex: a cocktail of vulgar and highbrow, heavy on the celebrity, with just a dash of controversy thrown in. Shaken, not stirred.
Case in point: Many of the books featured in the Hot Reads section of Hot Feeds are published by ReganBooks, such as the Jenna Jameson bio, Toni Bentley's Surrendur, and so on.
Posted by Harold Davis at April 15, 2005 02:36 PM
