Elliot Edizioni is a newborn independent, privately-owned publishing house based in Rome.

Elliot's staff officially started their operations in mid-September of 2006, and they're going to publish roughly 28 titles a year. The first five titles were published in May/June/July 2007 to great acclaim. The first number one best-seller was The No Asshole Rule (Il metodo antistronzi; September, 2007) by Robert I. Sutton (250,000 copies in print as of December, 2007, and counting!).

Each Elliot staff member has years of experience in the publishing industry.

Publisher Felice Di Basilio was former editorial director of Arcana, the biggest Italian music-related publisher.

Writer Giovanni Arduino worked for many years as editor (first senior editor, then editor at large) at Sperling & Kupfer and Frassinelli.

Loretta Santini was former head of press department and subsequently modern classics editor at Fazi Editore.

Other Elliot staff members include Monica Capuani (freelance journalist and translator), Irene Pepiciello (former head of rights at Fazi Editore) and Patrizia Renzi (former head of press dept at Einaudi).

Elliot has a great sales force by the promo company Vivalibri, a very wide book distribution deal with PDE (from bookshops to supermarkets, shopping malls and everything in between), a massive advertising/marketing budget (in the high six-figures) for the titles they’re acquiring.

Elliot titles span from foreign fiction and non-fiction, unpublished theatrical texts and the odd graphic novel and DVDs, with particular attention to international cutting edge titles or "lost" classics of the last century.

Elliot has roughly five lines:

Scatti, edited by Giovanni Arduino (foreign fiction/graphic novels)

Antidoti, edited by Felice Di Basilio (non-fiction)

Raggi, edited by Loretta Santini (modern classics)

Reading Theatre, edited by Monica Capuani (theatrical texts)

(*: published title)

fiction

G. B. Edwards The Book of Ebenezer Le Page *
Eileen Favorite The Heroines (Scribner) *
Samuel Fuller The Big Red One (Thunder's Mouth) *
Katherine Dunn Geek Love (Knopf) *
Rebecca Godfrey The Torn Skirt (Harper Collins) *
Francesca Lia Block Dangerous Angels (Harper Children) *
Francesca Lia Block Echo (Harper Children)
Christopher Moore A Dirty Job (William Morrow) *
Daphne Rooke Mittee (Penguin) *
Karen Russell St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves (Knopf)
Karen Russell Swamplandia! (Knopf)
Anna Stothard Isabel & Rocco (Century) *
James Fogle Drugstore Cowboy (Dell)
Peter Rushforth Kindergarten (Hamish Hamilton)
Francis Wyndham The Other Garden (Arena) *
Dorothy West The Wedding (Doubleday) *
Roman Dirge's Lenore: Noogies, Wedgies, Cooties (graphic novels; SLG Publishing) *
Hannah Holborn We Were Scenes Of Grief (McClelland & Stewart)
Donald Ray Pollock Knockemstiff (Doubleday)
Norman Rush Mortals (Vintage)
Norman Rush Whites (Vintage)
Norman Rush Mating (Vintage)
Robert Cormier Tenderness (Laurel Leaf)
Robert Cormier Fade (Laurel Leaf)
Elizabeth Hand Generation Loss (Small Beer Press/Harcourt)
Evan Hunter The Blackboard Jungle (Simon & Schuster)
Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer trilogy (NAL)
T. R. Pearson A Short History of a Small Place (Random House)
Lise Myhre's Nemi (three graphic novels; Strand/Egmont)
Warren Ellis Crooked Little Vein (Morrow)
Christopher Barzak One for Sorrow (Bantam)
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty (Dell)
Libba Bray Rebel Angels (Dell)
Libba Bray The Sweet Far Thing (Dell)
Shaun Tan The Arrival (graphic novel; Hachette Australia)

non-fiction

Albert Farris Thompson Tango: The Art History of Love (Pantheon) *
Rebecca Godfrey Under The Bridge (Simon & Schuster)
Robert I. Sutton The No Asshole Rule (Warner) *
Robert I. Sutton Weird Ideas That Work (Free Press)
Robert I. Sutton & Jeffrey Pfeffer Hard Facts (HBS Publishing)
Robert I. Sutton & Jeffrey Pfeffer The Knowing-Doing Gap (HBS Publishing)
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium (Belknap Press) *
Michael Zielenziger Shutting Out The Sun (Nan Talese/Doubleday) *
Richard A. Posner The Little Book of Plagiarism (Pantheon) *
Alex Kuczynski Beauty Junkies (Doubleday)
Anna Salter Predators (Basic Books)
Fraser & Bernstein & Schwab Death to All Sacred Cows (Hyperion)
Mark Oliver Everett Things The Grandchildren Should Know (Little Brown UK/St. Martin's)

Irene Pepiciello
rights@elliotedizioni.it
Tel +39 06 8844749
Fax +39 06 84085336

Loretta Santini
Felice Di Basilio
Giovanni Arduino
Irene Pepiciello
Marta Pensi
Marzia Grillo
Patrizia Renzi
Claudia Giusto
Monica Capuani