Bob Mecoy, previously v-p and senior editor at Simon &Schuster, has been named a vice-president and executive editor at Crown Publishers, effective December 1.
Mecoy will be acquiring nonfiction titles as well as literary and commercial fiction in both hard and softcover. He joined S&S in 1994, acquiring and editing the Motley Fool guide books and titles by Lynda Barry, Susan Powter and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Before joining S&S he was editor-in-chief of Avon Books; before that he was executive editor at New American Library.
