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Q&A with Kristy Draper, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Digital Product Manager | August 3, 2016
Tell us a little bit about your role at HMH. Can you describe your typical day? I am a project manager. I started that role while I was in the digital group and recently moved to the sales department. I …
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Allison Verost, Vice President Marketing & Publicity of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group | May 31, 2016
1. Tell us a little about your role at Macmillan. What do you do within the Children’s Group? I’m the Vice President of Publicity and Marketing at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Essentially, my job is to get our books in …
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Q&A with Margot Wood, Senior Manager of Content and Community Development, HarperCollins | March 23, 2016
Tell us a little about your role at Harper. What do you within the marketing department? My official title at Harper is Senior Manager of Content and Community Development, but I will describe my job differently every single time …
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Q&A with Jon Colman, Executive Director of The Children’s Book Council | January 26, 2016
What drew you to the world of publishing? The mission of The Children’s Book Council organization. I am interested in their goals of fostering literacy and promoting reading at a young age. As the executive director, what excites you about the …
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Q&A with Christina Quintero, Executive Art Director of Licensing and Intellectual Property, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | November 18, 2015
What was your first job in publishing? If it was not in license publishing, how did you get into the licensing end of the industry?My first job in book publishing was as an intern at Penguin Young Readers Group. Toward …
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Q&A with Erin Stein, Publisher at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group | September 29, 2015
What was your first job in publishing? In college I worked at The Arizona Daily Wildcat in several roles: copy editor, arts reporter, columnist, and wire editor. Then my first job in the Big Apple was at Time Inc. Custom …
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Ilsa Jule, Marketing Production Manager, Random House Children’s Books | July 14, 2015
What is your current role at Random House Children’s Books?I’m the Production Manager in Marketing Production. I handle sourcing and producing promotional items for Trade Marketing and School & Library. This runs the gamut from POS (point of sale) displays …
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Amy Carlisle, Managing Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers & Clarion Books | May 20, 2015
Tell us a little about yourself and what you do.Over a decade ago now, a dear friend of mine who was working for Candlewick Press at the time got me a job there. It was initially a freelance gig, but …
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Molly Motch, Senior Manager, School & Library Integrated Marketing for HarperCollins Children’s Books | March 30, 2015
What was your first job in publishing? How did you climb the ranks?My lovely friend Hallie was working at Disney-Hyperion, and moving from School & Library Marketing to the Publicity department. She thought I would be a good fit for …
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Kristin Ostby, Editor, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | February 9, 2015
What was your first job in publishing? And did you always know that you wanted to be an editor? My first job in publishing was a summer editorial internship at Grosset & Dunlap/Price Stern Sloan, at Penguin Young Readers Group. …
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