Meet the Team

James is a publisher and founder who began his publishing career at Endeavour Press in 2016 and became Publishing Director for the renamed Lume Books 3 years later. During that time he also launched USound, an audiobook home-recording platform that works with acting schools and authors to assist with their audiobook recordings.

He left Lume Books in June 2022 to launch BookVolts, a blockchain-based publishing platform that allows authors to publish limited digital editions of their work directly for readers to own and trade.

He has a specifically digital outlook towards publishing, working across multiple aspects of the publishing process and developing a curiosity for new innovations that can help make a book successful.

Anne knew she wanted to work in the publishing world as soon as she finished school, since books are the only thing she knows anything about. After completing her literature degree, she therefore moved to Stuttgart in 2018 to work at dp.

Since then, her favourite task has been to accompany a book and its author from the first manuscript review to publication and to be as happy about every successful publication as she was on the first day. She also looks after the publisher's readers and reviewers.

When she's not at her desk, she needs a hike through nature or a bouldering session in the climbing gym as a contrasting programme. But in the evening, you'll find her with her nose in a book again.

Friederike has been acquiring and selling rights for German-language publishers since 2012, starting her career in children's publishing, working for Coppenrath and Carlsen. In parallel, she finished her Master's degree at Oxford Brookes University and became Rights Director for the independent publisher Loewe 1 year after her start in their Rights Department in 2015.

She left Loewe in December 2022 to start a boutique Rights agency for 9 independent Children's and YA publishers, always looking for new ways to spread content and gain a bigger audience for highly dedicated storytellers.

Friederike's focus is on observing the market drive and reader demand, and so she decided to join digital publishing and get much closer to the readership to observe and monitor reading behaviour, topic preferences, author communities and the market development. She is always looking for new voices that make our community enjoy reading and make readers fall in love with books and stay with us. She is also always looking for ways to build international author brands.

After work, Friederike is a garden girl, loves to spend time on her paddle board or enjoy lovely evenings at a lake in Northern Germany where she lives.

Books have always been a big part of Carina's life, which is why she moved to Stuttgart to study media publishing. The goal: to work in a publishing house and publish books. After she started as a trainee at dp in 2022 and is now primarily responsible for managing books and authors, she has successfully fulfilled this goal. In addition to taking care of authors and their stories, she has also made forays into quality management, key accounts and community care.

In her spare time, she continues to devour books, goes to the cinema a little too often and has a totally normal obsession with Kpop and K-dramas.

Marc is the founder of dp. A passionate digital native, family man, literature lover and passionate entrepreneur with a focus on quality and fair collaboration.

His vision of combining the quality of traditional publishers with the advantages of the digital world has turned dp into the leading independent digital first publisher.

Francesca studied art history and although she loves going to museums and galleries, she has swapped the world of art for the world of books. She has been a bookworm since she was little and the path to the publishing world was not far off.

Since 2017 she has been part of the dp family. During this time, Francesca has been involved in expanding the publication programme, building up the publishing team, taking care of processes and optimisations and introducing our content management system. While she has her hands everywhere, one of her favourite activities is working with authors on their books and helping them achieve their dreams.

Outside of work she enjoys spending time in nature, reading literary fiction, cooking, scratching Hermine's chin and going to the supermarket.

Hermine is employee of the month - every month. She's a cheeky labradoodle who knows what she wants: long walks, chin scratches and lots of cuddles. Nevertheless, she is happy to fulfill her role as Feel Good Manager.

When the doorbell rings, she informs the whole office of the arrival of a newcomer, who is showered with love. Aside from this task, her favourite activity is relaxing on her cosy blanket and recovering from the stresses and strains of the hard working day.