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Mary Baker, Assistant Editor

Kim I — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:14:00 +0000

Mary Baker (she/her) is an Assistant Editor at Berkley and a graduate of Emerson College. She joined the editorial team in 2021 after starting her career in Penguin’s subsidiary rights contracts department. Mary acquires swoony contemporary romance and romantic comedies, feel-good mysteries, fantasy of both the heart-poundingly romantic and heartwarmingly cozy varieties, and inventive book club fiction. She works with USA Today bestselling authors Simone Soltani, Mallory Marlowe, and Amanda Elliot. Her upcoming projects include The Late-Night Witches by Auralee Wallace, The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O’Clover, and The Seventh Champion by Sylvia Mercedes. Mary is a lifelong St. Louis Blues hockey fan, a grumpy/sunshine devotee, and has a lot of opinions about the best pizza in New York.

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Suzy Swartz, Associate Editor

Katie Macleod-English — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:02:47 +0000

Suzy Swartz joined Avery in 2017. She works with Lucia Watson on books like The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro, The Alcohol Experiment by Annie Grace, Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz, MD, Sababa by Adeena Sussman. Suzy’s first acquisition was the IACP Award-nominated The Zero-Waste Chef by Anne-Marie Bonneau, and she’s since edited The Gracias Madre Cookbook, Good & Sweet by Brian Levy, Unbottled Potential by Amanda Kuda, and Voilà Vegan by Amanda Bankert. She is interested in cookbooks, graphic memoirs, and personal growth and relationship books with a feminist bent. She is from the Bay Area.

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Sareer Khader, Editor

Catherine Barra — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:40:00 +0000

Sareer Khader (she/her) is an Editor at Berkley, which she joined in 2019. She is particularly keen to acquire immersive romantasy with stunning worlds and swoony relationships, cozy fantasy with warmth and heart (particularly with themes of found family), diverse horror and thrillers, elevated contemporary romance and romcoms, and genre blending book club fiction. Her authors include USA Today bestselling author Sarah Adler, Nick Medina, Jade Beer, and Aurora Palit. Some of her forthcoming projects are Kate Posey’s Serial Killer Games, The Rainfall Market by Yeong-Gwang You, Wedding Dashers by Heather McBreen, and Maggie Rapier’s Soulgazer. Sareer was raised on Disney and Bollywood, and her cat is basically the feline version of Toothless.

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Liz Sellers, Associate Editor

Catherine Barra — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:12:29 +0000

Liz Sellers (she/her) is an Associate Editor at Berkley, where she started her career in 2019 while earning her MS in Publishing from NYU. While she’s particularly eager to find books on the dark, edgier side of New Adult and adult romance, Liz acquires contemporary and historical romances and rom coms that range from light and sweet to dark and spicy. When she’s not seeing a Broadway musical or snuggling with her two cats, Liz is on the lookout for genre-bending commercial fiction that blends an immersive love story with elements of simple fantasy/magic or suspense. Her recent and upcoming projects include PS: I Hate You by Lauren Connolly, Strike and Burn by Taylor Hutton, and Willing Prey by Allie Oleander.

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Jenn Snyder, Assistant Editor

Catherine Barra — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:19:56 +0000

Assistant Editor Jenn Snyder (they/them) started their career in academic publishing before joining Berkley in 2017. While at Berkley they have worked closely with the Prime Crime mystery list, acquiring projects such as In The Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace and A Monster At Death’s Door by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. A lover of all things spooky and unsettling, Jenn is primarily focused on acquiring thrillers, suspense, science fiction and fantasy, and horror, as well as queer commercial and upmarket fiction. They received their M.S. in Publishing from Pace University in 2018.

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Miranda Hill, Assistant Editor

Catherine Barra — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:19:06 +0000

Associate Editor Sarah Blumenstock joined Berkley in 2016. Prior to joining Berkley she sold foreign and domestic rights for Penguin Young Readers. Sarah acquires commercial women’s fiction and romance—both historical and contemporary. Some of her recent and upcoming titles include The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by New York Times bestselling author Lori Nelson Spielman, A Touch of Forever by USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman, Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore and Faker by Sarah Smith.

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Nina Shield, Executive Editor

jaaronson — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:30:00 +0000

Executive Editor Nina Shield joined TarcherPerigee and Avery in 2017 with a focus on prescriptive non-fiction. Nina acquires inspiration, self-improvement, personal growth, creativity, spirituality, wellness, workbook/journals, mental health, functional medicine, parenting, and cookbooks and nutritional resources.

Authors she has worked with include James Clear (New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits), John McWhorter (New York Times bestseller Nine Nasty Words), Ali Maffucci, Megan McNamee and Judy Delaware (New York Times bestseller Feeding Littles and Beyond), Gabor Maté, MD (New York Times bestseller The Myth of Normal), Bishop Michael Curry (Love is the Way), Alexandra Caspero and Whitney English (The Plant-Based Baby and Toddler), Jordan Reid and Erin Williams (The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People), Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (How We Learn to Be Brave), Gabriela Herstik (Inner Witch), Kelly McGonigal (The Joy of Movement), Talia Pollock (Party in Your Plants), Kristy Shen (Quit Like a Millionaire), Jason Dearen (Kill Shot), Emily Winter (One Day Smarter), Matt McCarthy, MD (Superbugs), and Joe Saul-Sehy and Emily Guy Birken (Stacked).

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Lucia Watson, VP, Editor-in-Chief

jaaronson — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:54:21 +0000

Lucia Watson, Editor-in-Chief of Avery, began her publishing career as an Editorial Assistant at Viking in 1998 and joined Avery in 2005. She has been instrumental to Avery’s robust growth over the last two decades, acquiring a diverse list in the categories of wellness, personal development, psychology, and cooking.

Her health and wellness bestsellers include books by Will Bulsiewicz, Ann and Jane Esselstyn, Terry Wahls, Stuart Brown, Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv, and Annie Grace, and her acquisition of the New York Times bestselling The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon put Avery on the map in the cookbook space. She has gone on to build Avery’s food list with many New York Times bestsellers and James Beard award winning authors, including Adeena Sussman, Jeanine Donofrio, Madeline Puckette, and Joanne Lee Molinaro.

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Caroline Sutton, Editor-in-Chief

jaaronson — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:43:00 +0000

Caroline joined the Penguin Publishing Group in 2009 and has been with Avery since 2015.

Her many best sellers include The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The End of Alzheimer’s by Dale Bredesen, Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer, The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder, The XX Brain by Lisa Mosconi, Mastering Diabetes by Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro, Fat Chance by Robert Lustig, The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds, Mindset by Carol Dweck, and Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley.

She has worked at major imprints, most recently Random House and Ballantine, and her many other distinguished authors include Richard Davidson, Daniel Goleman, Dean Ornish, Tara Parker-Pope, Deborah Tannen, and Andrew Weil.

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Megan Newman, Senior Vice President and Publisher

jaaronson — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Megan Newman, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Avery and TarcherPerigee, joined Penguin in 2004 where her first acquisition was Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselsyn, MD. The book was not only a New York Times bestseller, but laid the foundation for Avery’s role as a leading publisher of cutting-edge books in the areas of health, science, psychology, education, and more. She also established Avery’s cookbook program.

Avery’s bestselling and award-winning authors include James Clear (Atomic Habits), Steve Silberman (Neurotribes), Dwayne Betts (A Question of Freedom), Brene Brown (Daring Greatly), The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (The Book of Joy), Angela Liddon (The Oh She Glows Cookbook), Adeena Sussman (Sababa), Joanne Lee Molinaro (The Korean Vegan Cookbook), Madeline Puckette (Wine Folly), Judson Brewer, MD (Unwinding Anxiety), and many more.

In 2018, she was also appointed the publisher of TarcherPerigee and helped spearhead the growth of the imprint. TarcherPerigee has long focused books in the areas of creativity, spirituality, personal growth and more. With books like The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, Attached by Amir Levine, Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab, Start Where You Are by Meera Lee Patel, and The Odd 1s Out and Burn After Writing franchises, TarcherPerigee has set the standard for books that inspire readers to rethink what’s possible.

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