Jul 30, 2015
Jenn talks to VP/Publisher Phoebe Yeh who has had an extensive career with various Big 5 Publishers about her love for editing and how that translated into her growing experience in acquiring good stories, how she's pursued good stories as well as diverse ones and the two don't have to be mutually exclusive, and the need for more of these stories in addition to the responsibility of publishers to make sure they sell.
Books recommended by Phoebe in this episode include:
Monster - Walter Dean Myers
Shooter - Walter Dean Myers
Hiroshima - Laurence Yep
The Magic School Bus series - Joanna Cole/Bruce Degen
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan
One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia
Let’s Talk About Race - Julius Lester/Karen Barbour
The Seven Chinese Brothers - Margaret Mahy/Jean Tseng/Mou-sien Tseng