What’s your background and how did you get involved with ForeWord?
I grew up in a small town in northern Michigan, not far from where ForeWord is based. My family owned several weekly newspapers when I was growing up, so writing and editing is in my blood. I worked at the paper throughout high school. At [...]

Welcome Shauna Summers, a Senior Editor at the Random House Publishing Group, where she edits and acquires all kind of commercial fiction, particularly romance and women’s fiction.

Tell us a little about you and your publishing house.
The Random House Publishing Group is a division of Random House Inc. and includes the following imprints: Bantam Books, Ballantine [...]

Tell us about your agency and yourself:
The Salkind Agency (www.salkindagency.com) has been in business for about 15 years and has sold over 4,500 books.  Neil Salkind, the head agent, is also a writer and has written more than 100 books.  (He likes to keep busy.)
The agency mostly focuses on non-fiction, especially textbooks and technical books.  [...]

Selina McLemore is a Senior Editor at Grand Central Publishing, acquiring women’s fiction and narrative non-fiction, Latino fiction, and romance. Prior to GCP, Selina worked at HarperCollins Publishers and Harlequin Books. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she earned degrees in English and Spanish Literature.
Tell us a little about you and your publishing [...]