After a 32-year career with Harlequin, Karin Stoecker, editorial director of Harlequin Mills and Boon UK, will retire on April 1. With Stoecker’s and Randall Toye’s recent retirements and the decision to phase out the Silhouette brand, Harlequin has made changes in its series editorial structure. Glenda Howard, Tessa Shapcott and Birgit Davis-Todd have been promoted to senior executive editors in New York, London, and Toronto respectively, effective March 1. In the New York office, Tara Gavin, Joan Marlow Golan, and Mary-Theresa Hussey will now report to Howard.
Additionally, Kelli Martin has been promoted to senior editor at Kimani Press, reporting to Howard. Denise Zaza will now report to Hussey and Gail Chasan will report to Gavin. In the U.K., Jo Grant, Bryony Green, Linda Fildew, and Sheila Hodgson will report to Shapcott. In Toronto, Brenda Chin, Wanda Ottewell, and Kathleen Scheibling will continue to report to Davis-Todd.
Stoecker joined Harlequin from the newspaper business in 1979 to head up the company’s proofreading group in Toronto. In 1994, she left Canada to assume the role of editorial director of Harlequin Mills and Boon, with editorial responsibility for Harlequin’s key programs sourced in the UK, including Presents, Romance, Medicals and Historicals.
