Sarah Crichton has a new job

(NB: yes, my subject headers are bordering on the ridiculously simplistic. But they get the point across, no?)

Remember Sarah Crichton? Once rumored to be in the running for the New York Times Book Review editorship (which, of course, went to Sam Tenenhaus), and formerly the publisher of Little Brown & co. (before being replaced by Michael Pietsch) where she got into a spat with Joe McGinniss for not promoting books properly, and most recently the co-writer on Marianne Pearl’s memoir A MIGHTY HEART, now she has a new gig, as just reported over at Publisher’s Marketplace:

Often a rumored bridesmaid for a many a publishing job opening but never the bride, Sarah Crichton will go to Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August to set up an eponymous imprint. She plans on publishing 12 to 15 books a year, both fiction and nonfiction. She says in a statement, “It is rare to get an opportunity like this–to start up an imprint–and I feel tremendously lucky. Excited, too, because we’re looking forward to doing some smart and vervy publishing.”

It just goes to show–stick around long enough, and you, too, can get your own imprint to play with (see Godoff, Ann or Grann, Phyllis for further insight on the matter.)