Angela James, Executive editor of Carina PressCarina Press is Harlequin’s digital-first imprint. Angela James is a well-known advocate for digital publishing. James has enjoyed a long and varied career in digital publishing, including launching and serving as executive editor for Samhain Publishing. James frequently travels to regional, national and international writing conferences to meet with authors and readers, and present workshops on digital publishing for both authors and readers of all genres of fiction.
While Angela doesn’t do a lot of editing these days, she still enjoys reading submissions in steampunk, cyberpunk and BDSM/erotic romance. And she’s still looking for the author who will write a space cowboy book for her in the vein of Firefly!
Micki Nuding is a Senior Editor for Pocket Books/Gallery at Simon & Schuster. She acquires commercial fiction and nonfiction, with women’s fiction the hands-down favorite and largest part of her list. Her romance authors include New York Times bestsellers Sabrina Jeffries, Cindy Gerard, Karen Hawkins, Julia London, and Katie MacAlister. Other women’s fiction includes Jan Burke’s paperback suspense novels, historical novels, and cozy mysteries
Elaine Spencer joined the Knight Agency in 2005. A lifetime booklover, she graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelors degree in Comparative Literature and English, paired with an intense focus on Economics. Elaine now represents a diverse list of adult and young adult authors, and handles all of the sub-rights’ licensing for the Knight Agency’s 150+ client list as well as acting as the agency’s general business manager. Elaine particularly enjoys engaging characters, smart dialogue, and plots that take the reader on an emotional journey and transcend genre boundaries. Her diverse experience makes her well qualified to juggle both the creative and the contractual sides of the business, and she prides herself on the one-on-one attention and personal relationships that she is able to develop with each of her clients.
Elaine is not interested in children’s or picture books, horror, poetry, screenplays, short story collections, history, westerns, straight fantasy or science-fiction. Elaine currently lives in Athens, Georgia. In her spare time she can most likely be found curled up poolside with a good book and her beloved Westie, Claude. To learn more about Elaine and the Knight Agency please visit our website at http://www.knightagency.net/
Leslie Wainger joined Silhouette Books as an editorial assistant in August 1979 and was part of the editorial team that launched the company’s first series, Silhouette Romance, as well as numerous series since. Her experience has brought her to her current position as Editor-at-Large, Single Titles. Over the years she has worked with a number of MIRA, HQN, Harlequin and Silhouette authors, including Linda Howard, Emilie Richards, Heather Graham, Maggie Shayne, Kathleen Eagle, Beverly Barton, Susan Krinard and Sharon Sala, and she continues to work with many of them today. She is also the author of “Writing a Romance Novel for Dummies” (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2004), the 2005 recipient of Romance Writers of America’s industry award and a freelance book doctor.