In commenting on her long career, Wiseman said, “Simon & Schuster has been a world of creativity, fresh ideas and constant support for me and my team for the last twenty-two years. My authors and illustrators and I have thrived here, and I am grateful to all the very smart team at Simon & Schuster whom I have collaborated with from art direction to marketing and selling our books. I am looking forward to what’s ahead in my new Editor-at-Large role.”

Jon Anderson, President & Publisher of the Simon & Schuster Children’s Division, added, “In the fifteen-plus years that I’ve had the privilege to work with Paula, I’ve been in awe of her keen editorial eye, her excellent taste and her ability to work with an astonishing range of talent ranging from First Ladies to Duchesses, senators to sports legends, poets to Pulitzer Prize winners and literary legends from both the Adult and Children’s publishing worlds. While I’ll miss seeing Paula in the office, I’m incredibly happy that she’ll be continuing to produce books for Simon & Schuster in the years ahead.”

Wiseman started in publishing as an assistant at Dial Books for Young Readers working for the legendary Phyllis Fogelman and went on to be Editor-in-Chief at Philomel/Putnam. In 1995, she launched the Silver Whistle imprint at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich as Editorial Director. Wiseman joined Simon & Schuster in 2002, and over 22 years her books have garnered countless starred reviews and she has published many award-winning and bestselling titles.

This list includes many beloved picture books, including most recently the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller WILLOW THE WHITE HOUSE CAT by Dr. Jill Biden and illustrated by Kate Berube and the forthcoming MOUSETRONAUT SAVES THE WORLD by Senator Mark Kelly and illustrated by C.F. Payne. Some of the highlights of the Paula Wiseman Books list over the past two decades include the NEW YORK TIMES Best Illustrated Books honoree IMAGINE by Raul Colon, many books by Patricia Polacco beginning with the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling THE BLESSING CUP, five books by the Ezra Jack Keats Award illustrator Matthew Forsythe, including the upcoming AGGIE AND THE GHOST, as well as many acclaimed books by Lesa and James Ransome, nonfiction picture books by Sandra Neil Wallace and Bryan Collier, who collaborated on the Orbis Pictus recipient BETWEEN THE LINES, and several award-winning books by John Parra, Rosemary Wells, Anita Lobel and others. Her list has featured debut authors and illustrators, such as Daniela Sosa; Ezra Jack Keats and Margaret Wise Brown award-winning author John Sullivan; and Society of Illustrators Gold recipient illustrator Melissa Castrillon.

One of Wiseman’s greatest collaborations has been her more than two-decade partnership with bestselling novelty book creator Matthew Van Fleet. They worked together as colleagues at Putnam and she began editing him at Harcourt. His book TAILS spent 93 weeks on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List. In Wiseman’s time at Simon & Schuster, Van Fleet has published a book a year, including the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers DOG, CAT and HEADS.

Other NEW YORK TIMES bestselling books Wiseman has edited include Lynne Cheney’s OUR FIFTY STATES, TEA FOR RUBY by Sarah the Duchess of York and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glaser, Mary Higgins Clark and Wendell Minor’s GHOST SHIP, and in 2017, she worked with former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her picture book version of IT TAKES A VILLAGE, illustrated by three-time Caldecott Honoree Marla Frazee. Wiseman also edited a number of picture books with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.

Not limited to picture books, Wiseman edited and published the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling CONTRACT series by Derek Jeter. And following the suggestion of her son, then eleven, she asked NFL twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber if they wanted to write books. They did, and their series went on to great success with middle grade readers. And Wiseman’s Young Readers Editions of the adult titles PAY IT FORWARD by Catherine Hyde and SHOE DOG by Phil Knight are two of Simon & Schuster’s most successful.

As part of this transition, Senior Editor Catherine Laudone and Assistant Editor Danielle Collins will be moving to Beach Lane Books full time, reporting to Vice President and Publisher Allyn Johnston. Beginning in 2025, titles originally acquired for Paula Wiseman Books will be published under Beach Lane, which will also house the Paula Wiseman Books backlist. Future titles edited by Wiseman will be published as A Paula Wiseman Book.