Maillet to Head Timber Press

By Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 7/26/2007 7:50:00 AM

Neal Maillet has been named publisher of the Portland, Ore., Timber Press, which was acquired by Workman in 2006. Maillet, who was executive editor at the gardening publisher from 1993 to 2004, was most recently an acquisitions editor at John Wiley & Sons imprint, Jossey-Bass Publishers. He’s also held positions at Facts on File and Bantam Books. Maillet, who has a background in business books and will be relocating from San Francisco to Portland for the job, said his “business-book authors always wondered why I asked them about their gardens—now all is revealed."