| Sumario: | The article profiles Belinda Budge, head of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.'s (HC) mind, body & spirit imprints Thorsons and Element.Budge is firmly rooted in commercial publishing, but when she joined HC 12 years ago it was her first time in the corporate fold, after a circuitous route via a PhD, on pleasure in women's films,, stints at Virago and the Women's Press, and setting up independent feminist publisher Scarlet Press. She edited a book for HC's feminist imprint Pandora, The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous: Popular Culture's Romance with Lesbianism, and was approached by Pandora's editorial director and offered a job.
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