Helen Dunmore, Jeanette Winterson and Melvin Burgess: not the first people you'd imagine signing up to write for publishing imprint Hammer Horror, home to bloodcurdling shrieks and helpless virgins.
For the rest of the decade, Travis concentrated on his Warners imprint Blanco Y Negro – home to the Jesus and Mary Chain, Everything But The Girl and Catatonia – and the burgeoning management side of things with Pulp.
The shake-up is raising questions among authors, agents and critics about the future of the venerable Random House imprint, the home of William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren and Truman Capote, and an important institution in modern American letters.
Yet by her own admission, the imprint of her home continent is unmistakable.
Later, Stephen Jacobsen testified that a bill to Global Endeavour had "a faint imprint" of his home improvement company's logo.
That would mean that even camcorders would have to be redesigned to imprint watermarks on home videos.
But Ms. Matalin's long history with Mr. Cheney has made her imprint a logical home for his book.
Signed to Sony imprint Deltasonic - home to the Coral and Payne's brother's band the Zutons - her future looks very bright indeed.
Three nights later, Davis made an even larger imprint with his home run, which, viewed through the prism of time, seems to have had an enduring impact in another way: It pierced Chapman's veneer of invincibility.
But Motown: Speaking in the Streets is special for two reasons: first, for bringing our attention to the famous label's much lesser-known spoken word imprint, Black Forum – home to Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby and Stokey Carmichael – and second, because breaking up Radio 4's monotony of voices is no bad thing.
