Heather Lennon

Heather Lennon, the Sales and Marketing Director at Arctis Books, a new publisher of books in translation for middle grade and young adult audiences. Heather has been in publishing for 20 years, with Random House, North/South Books, and is now helping Arctis Books take off.  The company’s first book, The End by Swedish author Mats Strandberg, came out in October 2020. It is described by Publisher’s Weekly as Nordic noir meets YA in a part whodunit, part romance, part end of the world narrative. The book received a Kirkus starred review and was listed as one of their Best Young Adult Books of 2020.  This recognition really gave Arctis the push it needed.  

Now Arctis has the Odin’s Child trilogy by Norwegian author Siri Petterson which has been an international bestseller and is offering a really interesting, high quality slate of books from Europe with the possibility of presenting literature from other parts of the world  in the future.

Heather loves reading history and historical fiction.  She will never turn down a Phillipa Gregory book and she coined the phrase “L’engling” on our show to describe doing a brainy bookish activity.

You can find learn more about Arctis Books and their catalog at www.arctis-books.com or on instagram at @arctisbooksusa.