Ginjer Buchanan

Ginjer Buchanan is the Editor-in-Chief, Ace/Roc Books, Ace and Roc being the science fiction and fantasy imprints of Berkley and NAL. She also acquires mysteries, historical fiction, pop culture non-fiction, and an occasional paranormal romance.

Kerri Buckley

Kerri Buckley is an associate editor at Bantam Dell, where she began her career working under Tracy Devine on books by perennial New York Times bestselling authors Danielle Steel, Dean Koontz, and Luanne Rice. She now acquires commercial fiction with an offbeat literary edge as well as chick-lit and general women's fiction. Forthcoming titles include Shawn Klomparens' JESSICA Z., Rodes Fishburne's GOING TO SEE THE ELEPHANT, Heather and Rose MacDowell's TURNING TABLES and Sandra Kring's THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS, as well as the third installment in Diana Peterfreund's Secret Society Girl series, RITES OF SPRING (BREAK).

Jackie Cantor

Jackie is an Executive Editor at Berkley Books, a division of the Penguin Group. Prior to joining Berkley in August 2005, she was a Vice President and Executive Editor at Bantam Dell. She acquires and edits a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction titles in all formats. Her list of authors includes New York Times bestsellers Diana Gabaldon, John Lescroart, Eloisa James, and Hope Edelman, as well as Helen Fremont, author of the acclaimed memoir AFTER LONG SILENCE. Recent acquisitions include THE ROAD FROM CHAPEL HILL by Joanna Catherine Scott, author of the Booksense Top Ten Pick THE LUCKY GOURD SHOP; PRACTICALLY PERFECT IN EVERY WAY by Brain, Child magazine co-founder Jennifer Niesslein; and WHAT FRENCH WOMEN KNOW ABOUT LOVE AND SEX by journalist Debra Ollivier.

Tom Colgan

An Executive Editor at Penguin, Tom has worked in publishing for over twenty years in publishing. His specialty is category fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and military fiction. Authors he has worked with include Tom Clancy, Ed McBain, Clive Cussler, W.E.B. Griffin, and Jack Higgins.

Julie Doughty

Julie is an editor at Dutton, a division of Penguin. She specializes in commercial and literary fiction, particularly for women, as well as memoir and pop culture nonfiction. Her projects include MY REVOLUTIONS by award winning author Hari Kunzru, the New York Times bestseller WALKING WITH ENEMIES by Eric Jerome Dickey, INSIDE INSIDE by "Inside the Actors Studio" host James Lipton, the National Jewish Book Award-winning anthology THE MODERN JEWISH GIRL'S GUIDE TO GUILT, the gothic thriller SEASON OF THE WITCH by Natasha Mostert, and a bestselling series of Sudoku puzzle books. She has worked in publishing for twelve years and was previously an associate editor at Vintage Books, where she developed paperbacks for authors such as Philip Roth, Oliver Sacks, Richard Ford, Ann Packer, and Richard Russo.

Noah Eaker

Noah is an assistant editor at The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House. He acquires and edits literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Titles he has worked on include SEND ME by Patrick Ryan, VOODOO HEART by Scott Snyder, and THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES by Monica Ferrell, and, forthcoming, THE SLIDE by Kyle Beachy.

Alexis Gargagliano

Alexis joined Scribner in 2002 as the assistant to Nan Graham and had the opportunity to work on such incredible books as BRICK LANE by Monica Ali, LIVING HISTORY by Hillary Clinton, and THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls. Alexis has her own list now which currently includes: Naama Goldstein, Charles Johnson, Julia Markus, Sarah Micklem, Lilian Nattel, and Catherine Tudish. Her interests include literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. She is especially interested in projects about different cultures. Recent acquisitions include EVERYMAN'S RULES FOR SCIENTIFIC LIVING by Carrie Tiffany, GOLDEN COUNTRY by Jennifer Gilmore, THE LIST by Tara Ison, and UNTOUCHABLES by Narendra Jadhav.

Sandy Harding

Sandy Harding joined Berkley Books, a division of the Penguin Group, to assist Tom Colgan and Ginjer Buchanan. With them she had the opportunity to work with many notable authors including Charlaine Harris, Julie Kenner, Tom Clancy and W.E.B. Griffin. As an acquiring editor Sandy has her own list of mystery authors including Kate Kingsbury, Jim and Joyce Lavene, and Mary Ellen Hughes. Her other interests include commercial and serious women's fiction, paranormal, thrillers and narrative non-fiction.

Emily Haynes

Emily is an Editor at Plume, an imprint of Penguin Group. She specializes in political and current event books, humor books, and women's commercial fiction. She has edited and acquired a range of fiction and non-fiction including John Perkins' New York Times bestseller CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS by Andy Riley, and the WHAT EVERY AMERCIAN SHOULD KNOW series by Melissa Rossi.

Michael Homler

Michael Homler is an Editor at St. Martin's Press. He acquires in a wide range of areas which include literary fiction, mystery/thrillers, graphic novels, narrative nonfiction and biography. He has worked on such books as the NBCC winning biography JAMES TIPTREE JR. by Julie Phillips, THE FAULT TREE by Louise Ure, Lee Child's anthology KILLER YEAR, the Edgar-nominated PYRES by Derek Nikitas, and Don Mattingly's HITTING IS SIMPLE by Don Mattingly and Jim Rosenthal.

Leis Pederson

Leis Pederson is currently an assistant editor at the Berkley Publishing Group. She acquires commercial fiction, including romance and women's fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and general fiction. Forthcoming titles include THE SHADOW WALKER by Michael Walters, LA VIDA VAMPIRE by Nancy Haddock, and THE DANGEROUS DUKE by Christine Wells.

Laura Perciasepe

Laura Perciasepe is an assistant editor at Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group. She edits and acquires narrative nonfiction and literary fiction; forthcoming titles include GROUNDED by Seth Stevenson. She is also the paperback coordinator for the Riverhead Trade line, and is interested especially in acquiring titles as paperback originals. Previously, she worked at Simon & Schuster.

Hilary Rubin Teeman

Hilary is an associate editor at St. Martin's Press. She acquires commercial and literary fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, mainstream romantic suspense, and chick-lit as well as social and cultural histories, narrative non-fiction, popular sociology, playful self-help, and memoir. Recently published and forthcoming titles include: Lenore Hart's BECKY, a novel of the "true life" of Becky Thatcher; Tamar Yellin’s THE GENIZAH AT THE HOUSE OF SHEPHER, an award-winning novel of four generations of a Jerusalem family; Lea Jacobson's BAR FLOWER, a gripping memoir of the decadent, destructive life of a Tokyo nightclub hostess; and Lori Uscher-Pines’s BUYING THE COW IN THE AGE OF FREE MILK: HOW TO GET YOUR MAN TO PROPOSE; and star of VH1’s The Pickup Artist, Mystery’s THE MYSTERY METHOD: HOW TO GET BEAUTIFUL WOMEN INTO BED.

Book Publicity Pros

Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder is a Senior Publicist at Penguin Group (USA) in the Berkley/ NAL/ Riverhead/ Perigee division. Most recently, she has worked with such bestselling authors as: Harumi Kurihara (HARUMI'S JAPANESE COOKING), Kate Jacobs (THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB) and Sloane Crosley (I WAS TOLD THERE'D BE CAKE). Melissa began her journey in literary publicity at Tor/Forge, an imprint of what was then Holtzbrinck publishers (now Macmillan). Melissa holds a BA in English from Tufts University and is currently getting her MFA in Poetry at The City College of New York, where she is the recipient of The 2008 Stark Poetry Prize in Honor of Raymond Patterson and The 2008 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award in Creative Writing.

Ami Greko

Ami Greko oversees the marketing and publicity department for Folio Literary Management. Her first publicity job took place at at Viking Penguin. Honing her skills with the likes of A. M. Homes, J. M. Coetzee, Martha Grimes, Dave Sobel and Simon Reynolds, she found strengths in both online marketing and event coordination. Advancing to a publicity job with Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2006, she continued her focus on events and got the opportunity to further challenge herself and expand her publicity skills. At Folio Literary Management, Ami works with authors and publishing houses to create comprehensive publicity campaigns that utilize internet, regional and grassroots marketing, in addition to traditional publicity methods.

Susan Schwartzman

Susan Schwartzman has been in the publishing field for more than 20 years. She began her career in book publicity in 1992 as a freelance in-house book publicist, working for major publishers, including Workman Publishing, William Morrow, Penguin-Putnam, Harcourt Brace, Villard, Wiley, Avon Books, Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, Red Dress Ink, New American Library, and Downtown Press. As an independent book publicist, Susan has promoted a wide variety of literary and commercial fiction and nonfiction titles. Her business, Susan Schwartzman Public Relations, has provided major media placements for her clients in major media throughout the country.

Workshop Leaders at The NYC Pitch and Shop

Michael Neff

Michael Neff is a fiction editor, writer, teacher, and publisher. He is the creator and director of WebdelSol.Com, a literary and cinema arts community, and one of the largest publishers of periodical contemporary lit on the WWW He edits the Del Sol Press (recently publishing Michael Brodsky's Detour) and publishes several highly acclaimed national literary magazines including 5_Trope, In Posse Review, La Petite Zine, Perihelion, and The Potomac. He also edits the "Paris Review of the Internet," Del Sol Review. His own work has appeared in such classic literary publications as The Literary Review, North American Review, Mudlark, Quarterly West, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Conjunctions, and American Way Magazine ... [more].

Charles Salzberg

A typical day for Charles involves reading, editing, and evaluating novel manuscripts of all genres for students and a wide variety of clients. He has also published books with or edited for the likes of Viking/Penguin, Dell, Simon and Schuster, Henry Holt, St. Martin's, M. Evans, and Hyperion, as well as agencies like Trident Media Group, Peter Rubie Agency, Graybill & English, and the Spieler Agency, among others. Charles has ghostwritten several books, fiction and nonfiction, and his own detective novel is awaiting publication. currently, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence, The New York Writers Workshop, and the Writer's Voice. He is a founding member of the New York Writers Workshop. An interview with him can be found here.

Rachel Sherman

Rachel is the author of the short story collection The First Hurt (Open City Books), a finalist for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and one of the 25 Books to Remember of 2006, chosen by the New York Public Library. She has published fiction in such magazines as McSweeney's, Open City, Post Road, Conjunctions, and Story Quarterly, and in the book Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia and teaches fiction classes at Gotham Writers Workshop and for the New York Writers Workshop at the JCC in New York.

Tim Tomlinson

Tim is a founding member and president of New York Writers Workshop and holds an MFA from Columbia University. He has been teaching workshops on both fiction and the screenplay since 1991 at various institutions including New York Writers Workshop, the Writer's Voice, the University of the Philippines, Webster University, Cha-am, Thailand, and the Media Development Authority, Singapore. At New York University, he teaches courses on writing and contemporary culture. His fiction, articles, and other work have been published in numerous venues including The New York Times, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, Downtown Express, and Time Haiku. He is co-author of "The New York Writers Workshop Portable MFA: A Guide to the Craft of Writing (Writer's Digest, May 2006)".

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