Bruce Sims

‘Anyone in the publishing department, or indeed the whole company, could put forward a publishing idea. Brian would always ask, “How many and how much?”. While Penguin always had very efficient marketing and sales departments, an essential for a successful publishing machine, Brian through his vast network of contacts could not only tap into potential authors but also do his own very personal brand of marketing by “talking his books up” in influential places.’ Bruce Sims on Brian Johns.