Joanna Everard

Joanna Everard has 25 years experience of selling rights, working for various publishers from large multinationals like Reed and De Agostini to independents like Ryland Peters & Small and Salamander. She has sold everything from children's fiction and non-fiction (the Ahlbergs to children's atlases), to adult fiction and non-fiction (Michael Jackson's autobiography, Jackie Collins, cookery books, travel guides, antiques books and world atlases), and covered every type of rights.

She is currently International Rights Director for the Bloomsbury Group, responsible for rights sales for Bloomsbury UK and US including the academic and specialist lists. She travels regularly to visit publishing partners and attend the key bookfairs.