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SHANA DREHS

Editorial Director, Sourcebooks & Sourcebooks Landmark
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WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

​FICTION... Book club fiction that’s gripping, emotional and dramatic (contemporary women’s and feel-good fiction, near-historical that illuminates the past in a new and entertaining way, domestic/psychological suspense) 

​NONFICTION... Women-driven memoir, self-help and personal development, smart and prescriptive reference nonfiction, books that entertain and inspire​

​RIGHT NOW DON'T SEND ME... Romance genre fiction, fantasy, gardening
HOW I GOT INTO BOOKS... I think I might hold a record for most library books checked out at one time from my hometown library, and as a child I did everything one-handed, with a book in my other hand. I entered the business of books as a bookseller at two B. Daltons, in Iowa City and Sioux City, IA, and after some stints in online media, jumped to the publishing side of things at Random House. I had the pleasure of working in the Crown division, editing both fiction and nonfiction, where I worked with Wayne Coffey (NYT bestselling author of The Boys of Winter) and Suzanne Hansen (NYT bestselling author of You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again among others).
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JUST A FEW OF THE BOOKS AND AUTHORS I'VE ACQUIRED AND EDITED IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS... The 20- week New York Times bestseller Sold on a Monday, Marie Benedict’s bestsellers, including The Other Einstein and The Only Woman in the Room, the 10-week  New York Times bestseller The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Marianne Richmond’s blockbuster children’s classics, including If I Could Keep You Little and Be Brave, Little One, the instant bestseller The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend,  Katherine Wintsch’s Slay like a Mother, and Julie Clark’s The Last Flight
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SOME FAVORITE BOOKS AND AUTHORS I DIDN'T PUBLISH... The Girl Before, The Marsh King's Daughter, The Reminders, You are a Badass, The Night Circus, Margot, The Art Forger, The Rosie Project, The Other Typist, Where'd You Go Bernadette, Gone Girl

​ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS AN EDITOR DOES FOR AN AUTHOR IS... work with an author to shape a manuscript's structure, positioning and message, taking it from a rough draft to the most polished book it can be, and talking about it in a way ("positioning for the marketplace") so that the right audience finds it!

​I LOVE MY JOB BECAUSE... I can't believe sometimes that I have a job in which I get to read all day, and I'm absolutely never bored. And I know that I'm spreading the love of reading every day, in a way that can really influence and impact folks. As we say here, "books change lives."

​I KEEP MY READING PILE... Overflowing from my nightstand, in my car, on my phone, on my iPad. I'm happiest when there are books everywhere!​

​BOOKSTORES YOU SHOULD VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE... A shout out to my home state of Iowa -- Prairie Lights in Iowa City. There's also Powell's in Portland, which blew me away. Anderson's Bookshop here in Naperville is everything you'd want a local bookstore to be.

​WHEN I'M NOT READING, I'LL BE... Spending time with my family, running

​I FOLLOW READING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING NEWS AT... PW Daily, Publishers Lunch, Shelf Awareness

AGENTS CAN CONTACT ME AT... shana.drehs@sourcebooks.com

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