Novels in verse, novels where the main character is suffering from a terminal illness, and contemporary tearjerkers. I am open to most genres though!

When I was in college I had a horrible phone interview for a summer job. One of the questions the interviewer asked was what I would do if I had an entire week to myself. I immediately said I would read all the books in my ‘to read’ pile. And the interviewer told me I should go into publishing. I thought that was a bold statement until I started thinking about it. After deciding that was indeed what I should be doing; I attended the Columbia Publishing Course, interned, and finally got an editorial assistant position at Simon & Schuster, followed by an associate editor role at HarperCollins and now I’m at Sourcebooks!

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series by Maryrose Wood, Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan; Bone Gap by Laura Ruby, and Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli…to name just a few!

Editors are the author’s champions in-house. They are the author’s liaison between all the different departments, and they are going to be the one always in the author’s corner.

Well, I love books! But more than that I love working with an author on shaping their story so that it is the best version it can be. I also so enjoy seeing the transformation from word document to real-life book!

Everywhere! There’s a stack of books on my nightstand and books I want to read mixed in my shelves. I read most of my submission on my iPad or Kindle though, and that is fairly organized.

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annie.berger@sourcebooks.com, direct line 212-414-1701 ext 2221, Twitter @EditorALB