A few years later, he also joined Grosset & Dunlap as the publisher of their science fiction imprint, Ace Books. It was Tom Doherty who founded Tor Books which has become one of the most impressive powerhouses of speculative fiction in the modern world.ĭoherty has deep roots when it comes to books, having been a book salesman through the 1950s and 60s until he became the publisher at Tempo Books in 1972. Ron Hubbard 36 th Annual Achievement Awards and the release of Writers of the Future Volume 36 taking place Friday, April 3, at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, by John Goodwin, president Galaxy Press, publisher of the anthology series.įew casual readers may know of Tor Books, but almost anyone who has ever read a science fiction or fantasy book will have held one of Tor’s innumerable novels, which have been published since its inception in 1980.
It was the right decision for us.”Īfter holding a couple of executive positions in sales and marketing for other publishers in Indianapolis, Doherty assessed his background and his location: “The part of the business I knew best was distribution, and it turns out that Indiana is an ideal place to have a distribution company.Tom Doherty, president and publisher of Tor Books, was announced as the keynote speaker for the L. “Leaving New York was a hard decision for a publishing executive,” he recalls, explaining that he and his wife chose quality of life over the epicenter of U.S. After a decade in sales and marketing management, with such accomplishments as the launch of Hyperion and Disney Press into toy and mass market retailers, Doherty moved to the Indianapolis area. His first jobs were with Warner Publishers Services, where he sold mass market and trade paperback lines to the wholesalers and jobbers who handle supermarkets and other mass merchandisers.
“When I got out of college, going into the book business was natural,” says Doherty. He absorbed book publishing as a child through his father’s career as a book salesman and publisher, and his mother’s work in management of a college bookstore, and he began delivering newspapers in a suburb of Queens, NY, when he was 10.īy the time Doherty was in high school, his parents had founded Tor Books as a publisher of science fiction and fantasy, and he worked there part-time and in the summer until he got his business degree at SUNY Binghamton. Born into publishing is how we could describe IBPA board member Tom Doherty.
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