Job Watch: Kidlit Exec Wanted
Like you haven’t always wanted to be an executive editor at Little Brown & Co.
Media Bistro is just pleased as punch that they’ve this database of job listings for people in the literary biz, and they’re talking it up by mentioning this opening. You could apparently run the pretty pretty Poppy imprint. Fun name for an imprint, no question. Still, how many of you mentally follow up the word "Poppies"" with the sentence, "… will make her sleep"? A show of hands, if you please.
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Hmm, I tried to comment yesterday but I guess it didn’t go through. The executive editor will be mainly helping to oversee our paperback publishing program, working closely with both the Poppy editorial director and the LBYR editorial director. And, may I add, it’s a great place to work!