Stuart Roberts Joins S&S Imprint as VP of Special Projects, Executive Editor

Stuart Roberts has joined Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint in the newly created role of VP of special projects and executive editor. Roberts is the first new hire by S&S's recently appointed publisher Sean Manning.

Roberts comes to S&S from Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, where he was an executive editor and published such books as Benny Blanco's Open Wide and Michael McDonald's What a Fool Believes. 

Prior to that, he spent eight years at S&S, first joining the company in 2014 as an assistant to the late editorial director Alice Mayhew. His first editorial acquisition for S&S was Gucci Mane’s The Autobiography of Gucci Mane; other highlights include Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, Logic's Supermarket, Tony Rbbins's Lifeforce, Stephen Markley's The Deluge, and new titles with the estates of Ray Bradbury and Dale Carnegie. Roberts departed S&S in 2022 as a senior editor.

Per a release, in addition to acquiring and editing—with a focus on "taste-making artists and next-gen thought-leaders, popular culture and current events, contemporary history and investigative journalism, and select platform-driven fiction"—Roberts will "help curate the imprint’s brand identity and pursue business development opportunities that reimagine and expand the definition of a book publisher in today’s diffuse entertainment and media landscape."