New Division at Macmillan: Flatiron Books

Bob Miller's New Division at Macmillan: Flatiron Books

Bob Miller has come up with a name for his new division at Macmillan: Flatiron Books.

As he put it, the name "carries a lot of history, both for Macmillan and for New York City." One of the tallest buildings in the world when it was opened in 1902, the Flatiron Building has housed many Macmillan Publishing companies for years. The company is the building's sole office tenant.

Miller also announced three acquisitions by Flatiron Books:

• K: Into the Pathless Land by Mark Frost (author of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Match, and more), which "weaves a timeless fable about the dramatic and inspirational early struggles of influential spiritual thinker, writer and speaker J. Krishnamurti."
• The Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron, a clinical psychologist who recounts her early experiences with troubled children, men and women with dementia, eating disorders, sexual dysfunction, and in one case, a psychopath. She is a public speaker, writer (weekly for the Times and monthly for Good Housekeeping) and broadcaster who advises the British government on mental health policy issues.  
• The Year of the Cow: How 420 Pounds of Beef Built a Better Life for One American Family by Jared Stone, in which the Emmy Award-winning TV producer tells "how he bought an entire cow and cooked his way through it, learning that a more conscious relationship with food gave him clarity, better health and more creativity, not to mention hundreds of new recipes."

Miller joined Macmillan in May. He formerly had been group publisher of Workman Publishing, created HarperStudio at HarperCollins and founded Hyperion at Disney, where he worked 18 years.

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