Another publishing figure turned author is the U.K.'s Nick Webb, a popular fixture for years in the London publishing scene—most recently as managing director of Simon & Schuster U.K.—who is writing a biography of one of his discoveries, popular author Douglas Adams, whose cult favorite A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Webb had commissioned during his years at Pan. His book will be called, in true Adams style, Wish You Were Here, and was sold here by Russell Galen to Betsy Mitchell at Ballantine. In the U.K., Curtis Brown sold it to Headline. Webb is not the first writer in the family: two years ago his 14-year-old daughter, Catherine, made a good sale of her two-volume children's fantasy Mirror Dreams to what was then Little, Brown U.K.