Sue Grimshaw, resides in MI with her husband & shelves of romance books. Previously Borders Romance buyer for ten of her almost sixteen year tenure with the company, she has been recognized by the industry year after year for her support of the genre, including being the recipient of the 2008 RWA Vivian Stephens Award.

Sue loves to travel, ski, bike & hike, but, has the most fun being with her husband & reading romance.

See Romance at Random website.
See the interview by Theresa Rizzo.

Kevan Lyon has more than 20 years in the publishing business, including 5 years as a Literary Agent with the Dijkstra Agency and 17+ years on the wholesale, retail and distribution side of the business, Kevan's background on the buying and retail side of publishing affords her helpful insight into what types of books will sell and how to market them. Kevan holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Kevan handles women's fiction, with an emphasis on commercial women's fiction, young adult fiction and all genres of romance. Authors on Kevan's list span a broad range of genres in women's fiction from more literary, commercial projects to all genres of romance including historical, contemporary, suspense and paranormal. She loves to be surprised by a unique plot or characters and is always looking for a new, fresh voice or approach.

For more information visit the agency website, visit their Facebook page, or follow Kevan on Twitter!
See the interview by Theresa Rizzo.

James Frenkel has worked in publishing since 1971. He has, at various times, been an editor, an agent, a packager and a publisher. The one constant in his career has been editing. He has worked for Dell Publishing/Delacorte Press, Grosset & Dunlap, Macmillan Publishing, and for the past twenty-five years has edited books for Tom Doherty Associates (Tor Books/Forge Books). He has edited hundreds of books since he began, ranging from a potpourri of non-fiction (self-help; health-and-fitness; biographies/memoirs; cookbooks; crossword-puzzle books; comic-strip books; science; history; sports; the occult) to a wide range of fiction: contemporary fiction; mysteries and thrillers; historical fiction; fantasy; science fiction; romantic fiction; adventure novels; Young Adult fiction; film and tie-in novels. He is currently a Senior Editor for TDA, and for twenty years has been the packager of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series published by St. Martin's Press.

If he admits to an inordinate fondness for science fiction; his guilty pleasures include Dickens (not Great Expectations), Yeats, Blake, vintage Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries, and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen.

See the interview by Theresa Rizzo.

Mary came to literature from a writer's perspective and started reading at Andrea Brown Literary Agency to see what it was like "on the other side of the desk." She quickly found her passion there and, after a year of working behind the scenes, officially joined the agency in August 2009. In her quest to learn all sides of publishing, she has also worked at Chronicle Books and earned her MFA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco.

At this time, Mary is only considering food books, food memoirs, cookbooks, adult literary fiction, and, for the children's market, young adult and middle grade fiction and truly exceptional picture books from authors, illustrators, and author/illustrators. She prefers upmarket premises with literary spark and commercial appeal. Her favorite genres are character-driven fantasy, paranormal, dystopian, thriller, horror, adventure, humor, contemporary/realistic, romance and mystery.

She operates the Andrea Brown East office from Brooklyn, NY, and blogs at Kidlit.com, which has been named one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers by Writer's Digest Magazine for two years running.

Also visit Andrea Brown Literary Agency website.
See the interview by Theresa Rizzo.

Kat Brzozowski is an assistant editor at Thomas Dunne Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press. She has had extensive experience at literary agencies and has interned at Maria Carvainis Agency, Inc, Writers House, and Foundry Literary + Media.

She enjoys a broad range of adult fiction and non-fiction, as well as young adult fiction. Her recent projects include an edgy mystery series set in Santa Barbara, California and Milton T. Burton’s Texan mysteries Nights of the Red Moon and The Devil’s Odds.

Kat grew up in New Hampshire and graduated from Colby College in Maine, where she studied English, Italian, and creative writing. She lives in Queens, where she enjoys eating ethnic food, exploring new neighborhoods, and, of course, reading.

See the interview by Theresa Rizzo.