Jennifer Bergstrom, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief
RESOURCES
Brigitte Smith, Publishing Manager
Areas of interest: African American commercial fiction, Pop-Culture, Inspirational Women’s Fiction
Authors include: ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Jacquelin Thomas, Claudia Mair Burney, Patricia Haley, Trista Russell
Patrick Price, Senior Editor
Areas of interest: Pop-Culture, Prescriptive and Narrative Non-fiction, Self-help, Celebrity Memoir, Thriller, Commercial Women’s Fiction
Authors Include: Tori Spelling, Heather B. Armstrong, Tim Gunn, Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
Downtown Press
Downtown Press focuses on trade paperback women’s fiction, including authors like Cara Lockwood, Cathy Kelly, and Harriet Evans.
Micki Nuding, Senior Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial Fiction and Non-fiction, Women’s Fiction/Romance
Authors Include: Sabrina Jeffries, Cindy Gerard, Janet Chapman, Karen Hawkins, Jan Burke, Susan Sizemore, Dr. Spock, Joan Medlicott
Pocket Books
Pocket Books, America’s first paperback publisher, is the home of many major authors including Sandra Brown, Vince Flynn, and Stephen King.
Mitchell Ivers, Vice President and Senior Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial Fiction and non-fiction
Authors Include: Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Christopher Rice, Mary Higgins Clark, Ann Rule, Joan Rivers
Karen Hunter
Fifteen books and six bestsellers after Karen Hunter wrote I Make My Own Rules with LL Cool J, she launched a joint venture with Pocket Books. Karen Hunter Publishing publishes celebrity books, gritty novels, and edgy non-fiction titles.
Gallery Books combines the Pocket Books hardcover and trade paperbacks, and Simon Spotlight Entertainment imprint into one larger and more powerful imprint. Like its name suggests, Gallery is committed to serving the audience and dedicated to publishing a wide variety of must-read books. Gallery is designed to showcase established voices and to introduce emerging new ones--both in fiction and nonfiction, and across a variety of genres. With a focus on women’s fiction, pop-culture, lifestyles, and memoir, Gallery publishes New York Times bestselling authors from Tori Spelling to Mackenzie Phillips to Clinton Kelly. Pocket Books remains the mass market imprint in the Gallery family, publishing titles from authors like Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Sandra Brown, Greg Iles, Kresley Cole, and Julia London.
MTV Books
Together with MTV, Gallery publishes select Young Adult and pop-culture titles under the imprint of MTV Books.
OUR EDITORIAL TEAM
Louise Burke is the Executive Vice President and Publisher of Gallery Books. She is responsible for a publishing unit that includes the hardcover and trade paperback lines of Gallery Books; Pocket Books, the mass market publishing arm of Simon & Schuster; and Threshold Editions, the company’s conservative publishing imprint; and the Downtown Press, MTV Books, Star Trek, and WWE lines. Ms. Burke joined the company as Executive Vice President and Publisher of Pocket Books in June 2001. Among the New York Times bestselling authors published under Ms. Burke’s direction are Glenn Beck, Lisa Genova, Nikki Sixx, and Fifty Cent. Ms. Burke has also supervised the successful bestselling paperback publication of authors including Sandra Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Stephen King and Ann Rule.
Louise Burke, Executive Vice President and Publisher
Jaime Costas, Associate Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Pop Culture-based Fiction or Non-Fiction
Authors include: Alan Goldsher, Richard A. Knaak, Dayton Ward, Christie Golden, William C. Dietz
Ed Schlesinger, Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial Fiction and Non-fiction, High Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Media Tie-in, Horror, Speculative Fiction
Authors Include: Chris Evans, Matthew Reilly, Kelly Gay, J.L. Bourne, Victoria Gotti, Permuted Press, ArenaNet, CBS Consumer Products
Abby Zidle, Senior Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial fiction, Women’s Fiction/Romance, Suspense, Current Events, Memoir
Authors Include: Candace Camp, P.J. Parrish, Perri O’Shaugnessy, David Tutera, Rita Cosby, S.E. Cupp, Stephen Hunter, James Lee Burke, Laura Griffin, Shayla Black
Lauren McKenna, Executive Editor
Areas of interest: Women's Fiction, Pop-Culture, Commercial Literary Fiction, Memoir
Authors Include: Sherrilyn Kenyon and Diana Love, Kresley Cole, Julia London, Mary Alice Monroe, Johanna Lindsey, Meredith Duran, Nikki Sixx, Bret Michaels, 50 Cent
OUR IMPRINTS
Tricia Boczkowski, Vice President and Editorial Director
Tricia began her career at Workman Publishing’s Artisan imprint in 1997, cutting her teeth on high-profile cookbooks and art books. In 2000, she joined The Jim Henson Company, writing and editing books for both kids and adults before settling down in the children’s division of Simon & Schuster in 2001. In 2003, Tricia began building the inaugural list for Simon Spotlight Entertainment as Executive Editor of the newly formed imprint, and went on to have a number of New York Times bestsellers by authors such as Chelsea Handler, Lewis Black, Mackenzie Phillips, Jose Canseco, Christopher Ciccone, Jim Norton, among others. She is now VP and Editorial Director of Gallery Books and continues to acquire both nonfiction and fiction of a commercially literary variety.
ABOUT GALLERY BOOKS
The editorial staff is led by Jennifer Bergstrom as Vice President, Editor-in-Chief of Gallery Books. At Gallery, Jen Bergstrom has published a string of high-profile bestsellers including High On Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler, sTori Telling by Tori Spelling, Prairie Tale by Melissa Gilbert, and, of course, the book that put the imprint on the map—He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
Anthony Ziccardi, Vice President and Deputy Publisher
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Megan McKeever, Associate Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Upmarket women’s fiction, Pop-Culture, Narrative Non-fiction
Authors include: Gwyn Cready, Melissa Mayhue, Jennifer Estep, Alix Rickloff, Marta Acosta
Jennifer Heddle, Senior Editor
Areas of interest: Urban Fantasy, High Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Women’s Fiction, Media Tie-in, Historical Fiction, Pop-Culture, and Narrative Non-fiction, Young Adult
Authors Include: Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson, Laura Wiess, Adrian Phoenix, Melissa Anelli, W. Michael & Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Pamela Ribon, Jeri Smith-Ready
Kathy Sagan, Senior Editor
Areas of Interest: Commercial and Literary Fiction, Memoir, Narrative Non-fiction, Suspense
Authors Include: Lisa Genova, Burton W. Folsom Jr., Anne Canadeo, Joseph Monninger, General Richard B. Myers, Sandra Harper, Kate Emerson, Thomas Steinbeck
Kara Cesare, Executive Editor
Areas of interest: Commercial Women’s Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction
Authors Include: Harriet Evans, Hester Browne, Jane Feather, Rowan Coleman, Christi Phillips, Tara Heavey
Threshold Editions
Threshold Editions specializes in conservative non-fiction. Authors include Glenn Beck, Jerome R. Corsi, Mark R. Levin, and Rita Cosby.
NEW RELEASES
Anthony joined Pocket Books in 2005 with more that 15 years experience in publishing. He began his career here at Pocket in the Telemarketing Dept and spent half his career on the sales side where he was responsible for selling and managing direct retail and wholesale accounts. Anthony moved to publishing as Senior VP Associate Publisher at Random House where he managed the licensing and media department and mass market imprint at Ballantine. Since returning to Pocket, Anthony acquired #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jerome Corsi, radio personality Jerry Doyle, Fox News Contrinutor SE Cupp and Wall Street Journal Economics Writer Steve Moore.
