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Daniel Nayeri is an editor at Clarion Books an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is interested in picture books, novels, and graphic novels. He is the author of STRAW HOUSE, WOOD HOUSE, BRICK HOUSE, BLOW, published by Candlewick Press. Before that he worked as a professional pastry chef and a stuntman. You will be able to get a signed copy of his book at the end of the day, when we do the book signing with Cheryl Klein, Adam Gustavson, and Leeza Hernandez.

He teaches a senior-level intensive undergrad course for the New York Center for Arts & Media Studies every Fall semester titled, “Publishing and Getting Published,” and he will be coming in on Saturday November 5th to do a picture book workshop for us. He will attend dinner at the end of the day and will conduct one-on-one critiques at our Mentoring Workshop the following day.

TAMRA TULLER, Editor at Philomel Books.

After working for several years in education as an English as a Second Language instructor at Rutgers University, Tamra first got her publishing feet wet in the Scholastic Book Clubs, and then moved on to Scholastic’s trade division at Blue Sky Press. In 2006 Tamra moved to Philomel Books, an imprint of the Penguin Young Readers Group, where she is currently an editor.

She is interested primarily in modern, literary middle grade and young adult fiction as well as story-based picture books. She has worked with such authors as Ruta Sepetys, Kathryn Erskine, Renata Liwska, Beth Kephart, and Barbara Joosse.

Lisa Cheng – Lisa Cheng is an Editor at Running Press Kids, an imprint of Running Press Book Publishers, which is a member of the Perseus Books Group.

Lisa has previously worked at HarperCollins Children’s Books, Atheneum BFYR and Margaret K. McElderry Books at Simon & Schuster, and PlayBac Publishing USA. She has had the pleasure of working with such authors and artists as Michael Spooner, Susan Shaw, Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Lee White, E. B. Lewis, Toni Buzzeo, Joan Hiatt Harlow, and Barbara Odanaka. She is currently seeking novelty and picture books (particularly with fun added elements), and middle grade and teen novels. For novels, she is interested in strongly grounded, compelling voices with broad appeal that immediately connect with the reader.

So we now have 5 editors, 2 agents, an art director, and renowned illustrator joining us on Nov. 6th.

Hope to see you soon,

Kathy