You, a Desert Island . . . and One Old Book
One of the little known truths about the book biz is that big publishing houses make most of their money each year not from the sale of new books but from old ones, from what publishers call “the backlist.” Think To Kill a Mockingbird or The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath or… Read More
Jeanne Devlin
Jeanne Devlin is editor of The RoadRunner Press, an award-winning traditional publishing house based in the American West. An editor of newspapers, magazines, and books for more than thirty years, she has also worked on national marketing and publicity campaigns with such publishers as Simon and Schuster and St. Martin's and for a number of New York Times bestselling authors, including Robyn Carr, Sabrina Jeffries, Debbie Macomber, Linda Lael Miller, and Wendy Corsi Staub. A graduate of the Stanford University Publishing Course, Jeanne is a member of the Children's Book Council, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Oklahoma Center for the Book of the Library of Congress. She also consults with boutique publishers.
