Collins publisher Bruce Nichols sent a memo out this morning announcing the hiring of Adam Bellow (left) as an executive editor for the nonfiction imprint. Bellow comes from Doubleday, where he was the acquiring editor on Jonah Goldberg's bestselling Liberal Fascism, as well as titles by other conservative thinkers like Dinesh D'Souza, Norman Podhoretz, Peter Schweizer, Bruce Bawer, and Charles Murray.

The move is a reunion of sorts, as Bellow and Nichols worked together at Free Press in the early 1990s. "Adam was a rising star, and a wonderful colleague," Nichols says in his internal memo. "In the years since then his finger has remained directly on the pulse of intellectual conservative publishing, with the track record to prove it. I could not be more pleased to be working with him again." Bellow becomes Collins' third executive editor of 2008, following the hiring of Nancy Miller in January and Gillian Blake in February.