Good Morning HarperCollins
Having dumped schlockmeister Judith Regan, it looks as if HarperCollins has simply traded her in for a new model. Variety reports that they have hired former Good Morning America producer Lisa Sharkey to spearhead acquisitions of the sorts of titles Regan used to truck in – celebrity gossip stuff and tabloid “human interest” material. But, as Variety points out, Sharkey has no prior experience in book publishing. Judging by her work at Good Morning America, however, HarperCollins will probably be getting exactly what they were looking for:
At GMA, Sharkey broke the Laci Petersen story when she ran across an item on the wire about a pregnant schoolteacher from Modesto who had gone missing. She specialized in human interest and health stories, such as that of an obese girl who was taken from her parents to stop them from overfeeding her.
Sharkey apparently won’t be getting her own imprint, as Regan did, but after she proves herself this will probably change. And “Sharkey Books” certainly has an appropriate ring to it.
