Piatkus Books started as a small U.K. publisher focused on supplying books to libraries. Judy Piatkus founded her second publishing company in 1978, while still in her 20s. This episode tells the story of the company's founding and early days, up through its growth into fiction, international sales, and  £10M in revenue before selling in 2007, just ahead of the global financial crisis.People Discussed00:00 | Judy Piatkus — Founder of Piatkus Books; author of Ahead of Her Time 06:42 | Edwin Buckhalter — Co-founder with Piatkus of Severn House (sold to him in 1978) 13:14 | V. C. Andrews — Bestselling Gothic/romance novelist 13:19 | Danielle Steel — Prolific romance novelist and perennial bestseller 16:51 | Mary Berry — British baking icon; author of multiple Piatkus cookbooks 19:25 | Nora Roberts — American author and perennial bestseller 19:25 | J. D. Robb — Nora Roberts’s pen name for the “In Death” series 14:33 | James Patterson — Thriller writer, covered in Episode 7 and Episode 8BibliographyAhead of Her Time (2021) by Judy Piatkus: https://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Her-Time-Judy-Piatkus/dp/1786785315The Great Crash 1929 (Piatkus 2008 edition) by John Kenneth Galbraith: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Crash-Market-Plunged-Depression/dp/0749909870“Marketing James Patterson” (2002) — Harvard Business School case by John Deighton: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/505029-PDF-ENGEpisodes ReferencedEpisode 9 - Covering Ingram Book's start as the Tennessee Book DepositoryEpisode 8 - Covering James Patterson's Marketing on Along Came a Spider, including Patterson's view of book clubs.

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