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The Inside Story: A Novel’s Journey through a Publishing House

24 October 2021 | 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

Avoiding the slush pile requires more than attracting an editor’s eye with excellent writing. Successfully hurdling the gauntlet of the ‘Acquisitions Meeting’ is the next step. Mandy Brett (Publisher and Editor), Kate Lloyd (Marketing Manager) and Jamila Khodja (Publicist) from Text Publishing draw back the veil with Nadine Davidoff to explain the internal processes involved within a publishing house.

The Panellists

Nadine Davidoff (Chair)

Nadine Davidoff is a freelance book editor / writing teacher with extensive trade publishing experience. She has worked as a senior editor at Random House and a commissioning editor at Black Inc. Nadine conducts regular seminars and workshops for RMIT, Melbourne University and writers’ centres across Australia. For further information:

Mandy Brett (Publisher and Editor)

Mandy Brett is a senior (acquiring) editor with Text Publishing. She has been at Text since 2002, working across the list: on fiction, trade non-fiction and occasionally YA titles. Previously she was at IAD Books, an Indigenous publishing house in Alice Springs.

Jamila Khodja (Publicist)

Jamila Khodja is a publicist working in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land. She has worked with writers of fiction, non-fiction, YA and Middle-Grade, and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Graduate Certificate in Publishing from the University of Melbourne.

Kate Lloyd (Marketing Manager)

Kate Lloyd is the marketing manager at Text Publishing. Kate’s worked in the Australian publishing industry for over five years and holds a Bachelor of Marketing and Communication and a Masters of Publishing and Communication. Kate has experience in building community through books and reading on social media and has been part of Australia’s #bookstagram community for almost a decade. You can find her @lillytales.

 

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