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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Friday, August 25, 2000 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Acquisitions and Rights Director Joins QVC Publishing Jill Cohen, Vice President of QVC Publishing, Inc., the publishing subsidiary of QVC, Inc., has announced that Karen Murgolo has joined the company as its Acquisitions and Rights Director. In this newly created position, Murgolo is responsible for acquiring new books and authors for a variety of new non-fiction lifestyle titles, including cooking, decorating, beauty and fashion. Previously, as Senior Editor at Bookspan, Inc.'s The Literary Guild and GuildAmerica Books, Murgolo's responsibilities included acquiring books in the lifestyle areas as well as developing original books for Doubleday Direct Book Clubs. Prior to that, she was the Current Member Marketing Manager at Meredith Corporation's Better Home and Garden's Cook Book Club. Murgolo was also the Acquisitions and Development Editor at Unipup/R.R. Bowker and was Associate Editor at Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. where she acquired bestselling reference books including The Mary Kay Guide to Beauty. "We're excited to have such an accomplished and well-respected publishing authority join our team," said Cohen. "Karen's successes, particularly at Meredith and The Literary Guild, will help us continue QVC Publishing's growth with new additions to our list of titles and authors." Launched in 1998, QVC Publishing has 13 non-fiction titles ranging from cookbooks to fashion to beauty to home decorating. Its first book, My Family's Best, by Bob Bowersox, host of QVC's In the Kitchen With Bob series, sold over 120,000 hardcovers in one day. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.