 |
|
| Tim Hepp | |
Tim Hepp, longtime sales rep at Simon & Schuster, is retiring on September 30. During his 33-year career at S&S, he sold early on to magazine and book wholesalers when mass market paperbacks were so popular, and has been selling for many years to Bookazine, Brodart, B&N College, and independent bookstores. He won the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association's Helmuth Sales Rep of the Year award in 2009 and was twice a finalist for PW's Rep of the Year award.
In a memo to staff, Wendy Sheanin, v-p, independent retail sales at S&S, called Hepp "an exceptional sales rep, a generous colleague, and a dear friend... He's been a tireless advocate for our books, authors, and publishers--and especially for his accounts all these years.... Tim has always worked to make us better publishers. He loves to learn our list, curate it for his accounts, attend author events, visit new stores, to offer merchandising suggestions, go to trade shows, emcee NAIBA events."
She added: "We will miss Tim's insights, his humor, and his poetry, but we wish him well as he begins this next chapter where he will get to spend more time with his wife, Lynn, and their child, Jules, and much less time on e-mail."