![]() YPG: Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew when you were starting out? Thankfully other people at Fine Print agreed, so they hired me-I worked for Peter Rubie and Janet Reid. Įveryday when I’d come in, would have two or three manuscripts which I would read and write reports and in that first week I was like, Oh my god, I can’t believe this is a job. I had about six months’ worth of money to live in the city (which at the time I thought was, like, a year, but it was only about six months), so I took an internship. I got out here and it was right at the beginning of the recession, so no one was hiring. At the time I was a little disillusioned with teaching so I thought, you know what, I am going to pack up my car and my dogs and I am going to move to New York and try to get into textbook publishing. Then my sister started working as a textbook editor at McGraw-Hill and I thought, that sounds really cool I could do something like that. I actually became a high school English teacher for six years. ![]() I think I had this vision that very literary people became editors, and then once they’d been an editor for a long time they might decide to be an agent. ![]() ST: I didn’t necessarily know that agenting was a job that I could have. YPG: How did you begin your career? Did you know you wanted to be in publishing right out of college? to talk about her start in the industry, what she’s learned since then, and how she’s been a part of shaping the New Adult genre. YPG recently sat down with Suzie Townsend, Literary Agent at New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Cincopa video hosting solution for your website.
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