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Former VP and Publisher at Crown Will Lead Open Road’s Editorial Services, Expansion into New Verticals, and Acquisition of New Titles

Pohlman Will Oversee a Growing Editorial Team That Already Includes the Recently Announced Betsy Mitchell for Sci-Fi and Fantasy and Nita Taublib for Romance

Pohlman Has Worked with Amos Oz, Rebecca Skloot, and Colson Whitehead, and Managed Backlists of Writers Like Virginia Woolf and Eudora Welty

(New York, NY - February 15, 2012 ) Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that Tina Pohlman is joining the company as Publisher. Pohlman, a former ...

Yesterday, June 12, was Susan Engberg’s birthday and to celebrate that occasion we’ve decided to feature her in our archival photo of the week. Engberg is the author of four short story collections, including Pastorale, A Stay by the River, Sarah’s Laughter, and Above the Houses. Her work has attracted substantial praise. Writing in The New York Times, critically-acclaimed novelist Russell Banks called the stories in Engberg’s first collection, Pastorale, “so good that they could change your life.”  The collection went on to win the 1983 Banta Book Award. In 1991 Michiko Kakutani, ...

Editor’s note: Open Road team members travel far and wide to get a look at rare images and items from our authors, which we then share with readers in ebooks, videos, and slideshows. Whether we've visited university archives or an author's home, our "On the Road" posts feature firsthand accounts of the trips. Lara Selavka traveled to Tulsa in December to visit the archives of Dame Rebecca West. Conclude Women's History Month today by learning more about this incredible woman.

Oklahoma is not exactly where one would think to find the archives for one of Great Britain’s most talented ...