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Wednesdays on the Stoop: PRH Series Part 1: Editorial

Wednesdays On the Stoop, a series of free programming by Zoom every Wednesday from 4 pm - 5 pm. The sessions are designed to be a constant structure--every Wednesday at 4 you can count on Blue Stoop to plug you into your writing energy with an informal and supportive space.

The first of a three-part series of meetings with representatives from Penguin Random House, focusing on job pathways and real-life experiences of being a literary editor! We are so grateful to the folks at PRH who are ardent about creating accessibility within the publishing industry. If you are interested in the editorial side of publishing, register here.

Andy Ward is the Publisher of Random House. Among the books he has edited are When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Edison by Edmund Morris, and the forthcoming How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue. 

Sarah Peed is a Senior Editor at Del Rey Books. Recent books she's edited include Max Brooks's New York Times bestseller Devolution, Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds, and Simon Jimenez's The Vanished Birds

Tom Hoeler is an Editor at Del Rey Books, specializing in working on licensed books, partnering with major brands like Star Wars, Stranger Things, Blizzard Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast and more. Recent books he's edited include Madeleine Roux’s Warcraft: Shadows Rising, Adam Christopher’s Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Timothy Zahn’s New York Times bestselling Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, and new Star Wars The High Republic initiative.

Molly Turpin is an editor at Random House, where she edits nonfiction books. Most recently, she published the New York Times-bestselling The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary Carter and the sadly relevant How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley, and she is working on forthcoming books with authors including historian and MacArthur “genius”

Register here.


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