An introduction from the Publisher

Angus Yuen-Killick began his career in publishing at a small poetry publisher in the north of England. Two years on, he then moved to London publisher Cassell who sent him to New York where he ran a sales and marketing office for the academic division. In the mid 1990s he was hired by DK Publishing where he worked in publicity and marketing for both DK and the DK Ink list, working closely with respected editors, Richard Jackson, Neal Porter and Melanie Kroupa.

In 2001, Angus was hired by Penguin as the VP of Marketing, overseeing marketing and publicity for all children’s imprints. A couple of years later, he was hired at Disney Publishing Worldwide as Global Director of Marketing, and later ran the school and library marketing department. In late 2009 he was hired by Macmillan to run the Kingfisher imprint where he acquired and guided the publishing program. He then transferred as Associate Publisher to Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Angus has had specific responsibility and experience in a broad range of areas of the publishing process, from sales, marketing, and publicity to sub rights, licensing, publishing strategy, contract negotiations, and brand management.  

Angus’s professional affiliations include serving on the boards of the Children’s Book Council, US Board of Books for Young People, and the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE. He has been a judge for the Reading Rainbow competition, has taught at the Columbia Publishing Course, and consults for publishing and related companies Yoto, Vooks, and Fox Chapel Publishing. He is passionately committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and as such served for 5 years as the inaugural co-chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Council at Macmillan. He is a trustee on the board of his son’s school which serves students with learning disabilities.