Prior to joining Simon Element in 2022, Marysue Rucci oversaw the fiction program at the Simon & Schuster imprint as VP, Editor in Chief for nine years. She acquires literary fiction, suspense fiction, and book club fiction, as well as memoir and narrative nonfiction. Recent notable publications include the New York Times bestsellers Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll and Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda; the national bestsellers Rouge by Mona Awad and Shark Heart by Emily Habeck; and the three-million-copy #1 bestseller The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. Marysue also works with Alice Elliott Dark, Sarah Ruhl, Alice Hoffman, Paul Yoon, Matthew Thomas, Wally Lamb, and Helen Phillips.
Emily Graff joined Marysue Rucci Books and Simon Element as an Executive Editor in August 2023. She began her career at Penguin Press, and has worked at Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins. She has published an array of critically acclaimed and bestselling authors. Notable titles include The Barbizon by Paulina Bren, Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé, the New York Times bestseller How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell, the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, the New York Times bestseller Mobituaries by Mo Rocca, and How to Not Die Alone by Logan Ury.
For Marysue Rucci Books, Emily acquires a range of nonfiction, including biography, history, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and idea-driven nonfiction. For Simon Element, Emily’s areas of interest include cooking, health & wellness, personal development, and psychology.
Anne Speyer joined Marysue Rucci Books as an Executive Editor in 2024 to publish standout suspense and thriller, book club fiction, and literary fiction. She was previously an editor at Ballantine Books for over a decade, where she edited award-winning and bestselling books by J. P. Delaney, C. J. Tudor, Alan Bradley, Christy Lefteri, and Julia Heaberlin, as well as debut fiction by Ava Glass, Antonia Angress, Delia Cai, Michelle Hoffman, and Katherine Wood. Across genres, she is drawn to distinctive voices, complicated characters, and juicy plot lines. A New York City native, she lives in Brooklyn with a dog named Fish.
Emma Taussig joined Marysue Rucci Books as a Publishing Associate in September 2023. She began her career at Simon Element, where she contributed editorial work on a variety of nonfiction titles. In her role at Marysue Rucci Books she has assisted on bestselling and critically acclaimed titles by Mona Awad, Paul Yoon, Wally Lamb, and many more. She is passionate about amplifying new voices in both fiction and nonfiction and looks for an inventive literary voice that hooks her from the first page. Some of her favorite titles include Women by Chloe Caldwell, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, and Tithe by Holly Black.
