Susan Bolotin

Workman's Editor in Chief and Acting Publisher chats about creativity, inheriting a legacy and what makes a Workman book work.

After a 20-year stint in newspaper and magazine journalism, Susan Bolotin became the editor-in-chief of Workman Publishing in 2000; she is now also the acting publisher. She began her career at Random House, and men moved to Simon & Schuster, where she was the editor-in-chief of Touchstone Books. While mere, she published The Road Less Traveled, which holds the distinction of being on Tiie New York Times best seller list longer than any other book. She eagerly awaits the day - not many months away - when Workman's What to Expect Wlieti You 're Expecting takes over that special spot in bookselling history.

Workman Publishing Company has been producing award-winning calendars, cookbooks, parenting guides and children's tides, as well as gardening, humor, self-help and business books, since 1968. Peter Workman, founder, president, and CEO, passed away on April 7 of this year at age 74 from cancer.

How are you adjusting to business in the wake of Peter Workman's death?

What's happened is Peter surrounded himself with smart people who know what they're doing, people doing their jobs as always with energy, commitment and intelligence. That shows it's going to continue. Before he died, Peter had made clear he wanted a small management committee,...