Meet Senior Editor Kristen Weber

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Welcome Kristen Weber, senior editor at New American Library, an imprint of Penguin.
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Tell us a little about you and your publishing house.
I oversee Obsidian, our dedicated mystery imprint, and also our movie / TV tie-in program. Offering a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction, NAL aims at reaching the largest possible number of readers, [...]

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Meet Agent Emmanuelle Alspaugh

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Welcome Agent Emmanuelle Alspaugh, who has worked in publishing for more than ten years, and has recently joined Judith Ehrlich Literary Management.


Tell us about your agency and yourself.
JELM (www.judithehrlichliterary.com) is a boutique agency that specializes in building the careers of authors over the long term.  Before joining JELM this summer, I was an agent at [...]

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Meet Editorial Assistant Peter Senftleben

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Welcome Peter Senftleben, an editorial assistant at Kensington Publishing. He has been there for two years and is still not used to all of the paper cuts.
Tell us something about yourself and your house.
Kensington is one of the largest independent publishers of hardcover, trade, and mass market paperbacks. We release close to 600 [...]

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Meet A Ghost Writer

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HAPPY
HALLOWEEN!
YOU CAN’T SEE A GHOST
Ghost writing in fiction is one of those shadow jobs that most writers would never consider. Why would they? You get no credit for writing the book, it is often in another writer’s voice, and the pay, while not bad, is not as good as writing your own original novels.
So [...]

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