Philippa Dickinson is a former editor for Puffin Books, and chair of Random House Children's Publishing.
[1] At Puffin in 1981/1982 Dickinson was asked to edit a book called The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
[4][6][7] Having received the first completed manuscript, it was Dickinson who "diplomatically highlighted various inconsistencies" to its two authors Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson.
[4][8] She noted that the two halves of the book were inconsistent (a product of having been written separately by Jackson and Livingstone) and that this included apparent differences in the rules.
In March 1998, the media giant Bertelsmann, who were the owners of Transworld, acquired Random House.