Ben Willis spent the first decade of his publishing career in publicity, for Transworld and Headline, where he launched the book blogger resource site bookbridgr.com, and orchestrated the campaign for ASA Harrison’s The Silent Wife for which he won the Publicity Campaign of the Year at The Bookseller Industry Awards in 2014. He was named a Rising Star by The Bookseller in 2014, and two years later joined Orion. As senior commissioning editor for Orion Fiction, he published a range of crime and thriller titles, including global phenomenon The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
Since joining Bonnier Books UK in 2019, he has played a major role in the success of many notable crime and thriller authors and titles, including Lynda La Plante, S.J. Bennett, Rory Clements, and singular thrillers like Whalefall by Daniel Kraus and Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney. His published authors have won numerous awards, including CWA Daggers, the Val McDermid Debut Award and Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards.
