Mallory’s crossover is not entirely unique.

While editors moonlighting as authors isn’t the norm, Mr. “I felt it would be disconcerting for my authors to wander into a bookshop and see their editor’s name writ large across a hardback,” he said. Mallory had always planned to submit the manuscript under a pseudonym, which is a mash-up of his cousin’s name, Alice Jane, plus the name of another family member’s French bulldog. Brehl imagines she may have walked the book into his office to ask for his thoughts on it. Mallory not prudently scheduled a weeklong trip to Palm Springs, which began the day his agent sent the manuscript to publishers, Ms. “I had no idea that he was writing a book,” she said. Mallory, then the vice president and executive editor of William Morrow.ĭespite Ms. Brehl pitched it to William Morrow publisher Liate Stehlik, that she learned it had been written by their own colleague, Mr. Having read most of the book in one sitting, it was only when Ms. Mallory said.Įven William Morrow’s acquiring editor, Jennifer Brehl, didn’t know the author’s identity when she received the manuscript. “As a publishing industry veteran, I could appreciate, even at this very early stage, how unusual this sort of attention was,” Mr.

Mallory’s own publishing house, William Morrow, plus deals with a record-breaking 37 international publishers and a film deal with Fox 2000. The competition for North American rights ended with a $2 million, two-book winning offer from Mr. Probably because of the gender-neutral pseudonym and the book’s winning, wine-slugging unreliable narrator, Anna Fox, guesses about the author’s identity skewed female. It is a happy if unsurprising endnote to the book’s publishing saga, which began in the fall of 2016, when word got out that the debut thriller at the center of an eight-house bidding war was written by an anonymous book editor. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Last week, “The Woman in the Window,” a psychological thriller that pays homage to Hitchcock classics, debuted at No. “They’re dead,” he said of his early literary idols. In the end, the Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Henry James novels got the heave-ho. Mallory had to decide which of his collection would be relegated to storage.

Recently, after receiving 32 hardback copies of his debut novel, “The Woman in the Window,” published under the pseudonym A. Four years ago, when former book editor Daniel Mallory purchased his 550-square foot Chelsea apartment, its main draw was the book storage: floor-to-ceiling shelving, which covers a wall of his living room, plus numerous nooks above doorways and under the flat screen TV that shares space among the shelves.

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