Since November 2009Industry Interviews
Here are all of the Industry Interviews we have done with those who work within the publishing industry. Enjoy!
Madeleine Buston (Darley Anderson Agency)
Madeleine tells us: what it is she does in the publishing world, how she ended up as head of Women’s Fiction and rights at the Darley Anderson Agency, what anyone would need to do to become a book agent, how she chooses which female authors she would like to represent, what exactly happens when you’re trying to sell foreign rights on books, who her favourite author has been that she represents, how she came to represent Tara [Hyaland, author of Daughters of Fortune], whether she would ever write a book herself, what kind of books she enjoys reading and, finally, she tells us a random fact about working in the publishing world!
Ally tells us: what her job with S&S as a web manager entails, how she came to work for S&S and if it was something she always wanted to do, what kind of qualifications (if any) are needed to become a web manager for a publishing company, what exactly is involved in a digital campaign, which digital campaign has been her favourite, a fascinating fact about life as a web manager, what campaigns she’s currently working on, who some of her favourite authors are and she tells us which author she would pick if she had the choice of anyone to work on a digital campaign with.
Sherise Hobbs (Headline Publishers)
Sherise tells us: what it is she does at Headline, how she came to work as a book editor, what it would take to get a job in the publishing industry, what it’s like editing many different writing styles, how many books she edits at any given time, if she’s in constant contact with the authors she’s editing or whether she likes to do it herself first, whether she edits a book once or multiple times, if there’s a book she’s edited that she’s most proud of, whether she’d ever write a book herself and finally a random fact about the publishing industry.
Hannah Torjussen (Little, Brown Publishers)
Hannah tells us: about what it is she does at Little, Brown, what her route to working in publicity was, what it would take to work in the publicity section of the book industry, what a typical book campaign is like for her using Rules by Jane Beaton as an example, who her favourite author was to work with, who some of her favourite books/authors are, a random fact about the publishing industry and finally tells us what books she’s currently working on.
