September 2021 Newsletter

 

The latest news from People of Color in Publishing

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Featured Publishing Professional: Polo Orozco
Featured Publishing Professional: Polo Orozco

What made you decide to pursue publishing, specifically children’s editorial?

I’ve always loved storytelling, and I knew that I wanted to tell, or help tell, stories for a living. When I moved to New York for college, I knew that I wanted to major in English, but I still wasn’t sure of what career path I wanted to follow. I remember a friend of mine was working at Scholastic at the time, and she loved it. This piqued my interest, so I decided I’d try to get an internship in publishing. Eventually, I started interning at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. I loved it (I was reading all day!), and I never left publishing.

Polo Orozco is an editor at G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He’s also a translator and an audiobook enthusiast. He often rides his bike around NYC. He seldom tweets at @Polo_Orozco_.

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Publishing Professionals Making Moves in the Industry

By Elizabeth Agyemang

  • Jess Harold has joined Henry Holt Books For Young Readers as a Senior Editor.

  • Zakiya N. Jamal has been promoted to Senior Manager of Social Media at Scholastic.

  • Anitra Budd has joined Coffee House Press as the Executive Director and Publisher.

  • Pilar Garcia-Brown has joined Dutton and Plume as Senior Editor. 

  • Jennifer Nakamura has joined Chronicle Books as Executive Director of marketing and ecommerce..

Congratulations to all!

 
 

Fulton Street Books

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By Amanda Orozco

210 W Latimer St, Tulsa, OK 74106

https://www.fultonstreet918.com/

I first heard about Fulton Street Books on a podcast on my cross-country move from New York to LA last year and since our route was going through Oklahoma, I just had to stop into this incredible bookstore just north of the historic Greenwood District. It was such a warm, open space with an adjoining coffee shop, lots of natural light, and of course, a wide but curated variety of books that made this bookstore feel like an important part of the neighborhood and community. Definitely worth the stop!

By Jasmine Miranda

By Chonise Bass

Check out these awesome bookish content creators!

By Jasmine Miranda

Bucks County Book Festival, Doylestown, PA

Dates: September 24-26

Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors, Winston-Salem, NC

Date: September 25

Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Dates: September 26 - October 4

Publisher Marketplace AMA

Members Only-October 20

This live AMA appearance with Carrie Bloxson, VP of Diversity and Inclusion at Hachette. It’s part of a new initiative for Publishers Marketplace subscribers called Discuss, straightforward, typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no Zooming, no separate apps required. Our ultimate goal is to support younger people in publishing, providing a cohort and vehicle for questions and answers.

Publishers Publicity Association

Currently seeking members for the Publishers Publicity Association (PPA) Event Planning Committee! They meet on the first Thursday of every month to plan monthly media luncheons open to publicity professions in the publishing industry. It is a great opportunity to meet/network with junior and mid-level publicists from other imprints, gain event planning experience, and build relationships with some of the top media outlets in the country. They are also open to publicity interns attending the Event Planning Committee meetings. Please email sarah.bonamino@stmartins.com or Justine.Sha@harpercollins.com if you’d like to attend.

If People of Color of Publishing has helped you as an industry professional, please let us know and share your experience with us. Submitting a testimonial will assist us in sharing with others how impactful our programming can be to our community and help us reach new industry professionals.

 
Elizabeth Agyemang