Del Rey Manga Announcement

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In light of our incredible success and continued growth with Del Rey Manga, I am pleased to announced that Dallas Middaugh, Director of Manga for Del Rey, has been promoted to Associate Publisher of Del Rey Manga, and will be relocating from Los Angeles to the Del Rey office in New York City. Dallas, who joined the company in 2003 as a consultant to launch the Del Rey Manga line, has been instrumental in building this enormously successful list; with his help, and with the help of our talented Editor in Chief, Betsy Mitchell, Del Rey has grown to become the third largest manga publisher in the United States. Prior to joining the company, Dallas was director of sales and marketing at Viz.



I am also very happy to welcome Mutsumi Miyazaki, who has just joined Del Rey Manga as Director of Licensing and Acquisitions, reporting to Dallas Middaugh. Mutsumi comes to us from Tokyopop, where she was most recently Acquisitions Manager and, before that, Production Manager. Mutsumi is fluent in both English and Japanese and has a deep knowledge of and interest in manga. We look forward to her helping us further develop our successful partnership with Kodansha, as well as her involvement in identifying and acquiring some of the hottest manga from Japan.



About Del Rey:



Del Rey Books (http://www.delreybooks.com) was founded in 1977 as a division of Ballantine Books under the guidance of the renowned Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey. Del Rey publishes the best of modern fantasy, science fiction, alternate history and manga. Ballantine Books is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, which is a publishing group of Random House, Inc, the U.S. publishing company of Random House, the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's leading international media companies. In the summer of 2003, Random House joined together with Kodansha in a creative partnership to bring some of Kodansha's top properties to the United States, making Random House the first major trade book publisher in the United States to do so.