2018 Back Matter

J udges’ Bio gra phies

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Elizabeth Blake-Linn

Adam Bohannon

Dan Breitkreutz

Richard Bretan

Elizabeth Blake-Linn is currently employed at Simon & Schuster and has been with the company for more than seventeen years. Books— whether she is working on them or reading them—have always been her passion. She can often be found reaching for something new from her bookshelf or scanning bookstores for that one hidden gem that captures her attention and imagination. Because of her fascination with the production of books, her position at Simon & Schuster as the senior production manager for Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Saga Press, Margaret K. McElderry Books, and Beach Lane Books is the perfect fit. The relationships she has curated with her editors, designers, and production editors are the best parts of her job, and seeing a book in the hands of a child makes all the work worthwhile. She is thrilled to be a judge at the New York Book Show.

Adam Bohannon is art director at New York University Press. He also freelance designs for various publishers, including Indolent Books, Milkweed Editions, and Rutgers University Press. In addition, he is the art director for Black Dress Press, publisher of the literary magazine Spinning Jenny. He runs Refrigerator Rex, an indie publisher that will be publishing its first projects in 2018.

Dan Breitkreutz has been in the printing and publishing industry for over thirty-five years and as a sales representative with Maple Press for the last fifteen. A graduate of Syracuse University, his previous experience includes ownership, consulting and sales with financial, commercial, book and newspaper printing companies in the Northeast. He is very detail oriented and understands the production process completely. Helping publishers achieve their goals has been the driving force to his success over the years. His past and current customers include some of the most recognizable names in the business. Dan and his wife currently live in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Richard Bretan has spent his entire professional career in academic publishing, starting with ink on paper at Longman and now to pixels on screen as a project manager/digital content producer with SPi-Global.

He co-chaired the 2017 New York Book Show and is currently the financial secretary for the Book Industry Guild of New York. For all this—and for better or worse— you could say publishing is in his blood and he is eminently proud to be a part of this noble industry. He has worked on several diversity and inclusion employee resource groups and volunteers with iMentor, a school-based mentoring program that empowers high school students in low-income communities to graduate high school and succeed in college.

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Steven Bucsok

David L. Elovich

Chris Ferrante

Lisa Ford

Steven Bucsok is the reprint supervisor at Workman Publishing where he handles production on all Workman and Algonquin reprints, as well as some of Workman’s frontlist, calendar, and proprietary titles. A graduate of Susquehanna University, he attended the Columbia Publishing Course in 2013.

David L. Elovich, territory sales manager, Rolland Paper, comes from four generations of a New England printing family. A graduate in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College, he trained in corporate America with technical sales management and marketing positions for General Electric as well as Eastman Kodak. In 1987, he was lured back to Connecticut and the family printing enterprise. That business, along with a start-up envelope company, were sold in 2004; however, he agreed to continue working for the new owners for a predetermined period of time. Upon completion of that commitment, he began representing Rolland Papers (formerly Cascades Fine Paper) in the Northeast. With a personal appreciation for the outdoors, he found a comfortable home promoting recycled papers. He lives in Connecticut with his wife. An empty nester with three grown daughters and two dogs, he enjoys waterfowling, fishing, skiing, and golfing in his spare time.

Chris Ferrante is a book designer at Princeton University Press where he designs covers and interiors for a diverse range of trade and scholarly titles. His work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and Design Observer’s 50 Books | 50 Covers competition, AIGA Philadelphia Design Awards, the Association of University Presses, and the Book Industry Guild of New York, and has been featured on book design websites including “The Casual Optimist” and “Book Cover Archive.” He is a self-proclaimed perfectionist, typophile, and all-around creative guy.

Lisa Ford is the production manager at Lonely Planet Kids, the children’s imprint of travel media brand Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet Kids is part of the house’s ongoing expansion in the North American market with a new children’s publishing office in New York. She has been a book production professional for three decades, primarily in children’s book publishing. She has worked at many of the leading publishing houses including Oxford University Press, Simon & Schuster Publishers—where she served as production director for the children’s division for sixteen years—HarperCollins Children’s Books, and Dial Books, Penguin Random House. Lisa also served on the diversity councils at Oxford University Press and Simon & Schuster, working to promote a more inclusive work environment and diverse workforce.

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Simona Gheorghiu Jansons

Jim Kaeli

Daniel Lagin

Bonni Leon-Berman

Simona Gheorghiu Jansons got her start in publishing as editor-in-chief of her high school yearbook (Go Lions!). Her career in print production was sealed during her first job, when she accompanied her supervisor on a press OK for the Philadelphia Museum of Art annual report. There was something about the sound of the printing press, the smell of ink, and the crackling pages of a newly bound book that ignited her passion. After relocating to New York, she became a reprint assistant at HarperCollins Publishers. From there she moved to Asia Pacific Offset, the leading print management company in Asia, where she is celebrating her fifteen-year anniversary. She spends an obscene amount of time in bookstores, combing the aisles for the most dazzling covers and luscious papers. She has a BA in history from McGill University, and an MA in Eastern European history from Toronto University.

Jim Kaeli is the solutions manager for book and hardcover technology at Müller Martini. In this role, he interacts with customers, sales personnel, and company manufacturing facilities to help define and configure book manufacturing systems.

He joined RR Donnelley in 1981 as a project engineer and worked in several manufacturing divisions before joining Müller Martini in 2001. He holds a BS in industrial engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Shippensburg University. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of Penn State University. He is also a member of the Book Industry Guild of New York and the Book Manufacturer’s Institute. His interests include fly fishing and hiking in the Shenandoah National Park, serving as local district chairman for the Boy Scouts of America, and playing keyboards. He is married for thirty-five years with two grown children and resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with his wife, Kathy.

Daniel Lagin is a senior designer at Penguin Publishing Group and a New York Book Show award winner. He has over fifteen years of experience designing books and animating for video and film. He also illustrates maps and infographics for book interiors and endpapers.

His design and graph illustrations for The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting into a Top College won a book show award. He received a BFA from the prestigious Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. His fine art background gave him a unique perspective that he applies to all his creative ventures. His design work is thoughtfully conceived and executed with precision. When not designing, he enjoys cooking and being outdoors.

Bonni Leon-Berman is a lifelong lover of typography. From a young age, she has been enamored with letter forms. She is especially proud to have hand-lettered her high school yearbook. Bonni graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Bonni finds inspiration in ghost advertising and is obsessed with collecting wood type, for which she has an extensive collection of B’s. She is an award-winning designer and recently participated in National Novel Writing Month by designing a book cover for an aspiring novelist. Bonni cut her teeth at Simon & Schuster, where she produced their first “crash” alldigital, high-profile book as well as managed and designed trade paperback and cookbook imprints. After putting in freelance hours, she did a stint at Oxford University Press.

She is currently a senior designer at HarperCollins Publishers, creating for their William Morrow, Harper, Harper Wave, and Morrow Gift imprints.

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Lily Malcom

Antoinette Marotta

Daniel Moreton

Tom O’Connor

Lily Malcom is the VP, executive art director of Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House. As an art director, she has had the privilege to work with many talented illustrators, among them Corinna Luyken, Judy Schachner, David Small, Jon Agee, Jerry Pinkney, Erin E. Stead, Tao Nyeu, and Zachariah OHora.

She enjoys working with long-time professionals as well as new, firsttime illustrators. Some recent titles from Dial are The Book of Mistakes, All’s Faire in Middle School, Sarabella, Dory Fantasmagory, Blue Sky White Stars, Dragons Love Tacos 2, and Life on Mars.

Antoinette Marotta (a.k.a. Toni) has been in book manufacturing and production for forty years. Her first job was at Warner Books. She has worked on trade and hardcover books in all areas of production— first printings, reprints, one- and four-color books, including the purchasing of paper. She always enjoys the challenge and is very enthusiastic on whatever project she is working on. She is currently working at Knopf Doubleday in the Vintage/Anchor division as a production associate. She enjoys going to boxing classes, theatre, and movies, and absolutely loves going to the beach and taking in the beauty of it.

Daniel Moreton joined Penguin Random House in October of 2014, as associate publisher for Grosset & Dunlap, PSS!, and licensed publishing for Penguin Young Readers. He oversees and collaborates on more than 200 books a year, including Mad Libs, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and the New York Times bestselling series, Who Was…? Prior to coming to Penguin Random House, he spent over twenty-five years, illustrating, designing, and providing creative direction for children’s publishing and entertainment products. He has worked for some of the leaders in books and television, including Scholastic, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Simon & Schuster.

Whether he’s illustrating his own books or working collaboratively to develop content with a team, he loves to create new and innovative experiences for children.

Tom O’Connor is the director of account development for S4Carlisle Publishing Services. S4Carlisle is a company that offers a publishing workflow system and a complete array of production services to the book and journal publishing industry. He has been a part of publishing his entire working career and has had seventeen years of extensive firsthand experience inside a major publisher house. Later, he had the opportunity to start the first complete outside service to the publishing community.

He is very pleased to be a part of this group of judges.

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Jason O’Neil

Pamela Pelton

Andrew Rosenau

Kate E. Stephenson

Jason O’Neil, a former spacecraft sales executive with forty years of experience in major aerospace companies, has authored thirteen successful spacecraft systems proposals. He used his knowledge of the industry to create the Red Box Trilogy, an Indiana Jones-style thriller based upon an antigravity device that changes transportation systems on Earth. In a recent book, Sinecure, one of five books published by AuthorHouse, the author exposes the retirement package of the members of Congress. In addition, he has authored two books about the national debt crisis in America. His first book, Bald Eagle Vision, is a novel about the U.S. economy and necessary painful budget cuts. His most recent novel, When Baldie Cries, details the collapse of the 242-year American experiment as the “most difficult sales job on the planet.” It portrays a chilling prophesy when the president attempts to wean the country off of the welfare state.

Pamela Pelton is a senior production supervisor with McGraw Hill Education in the Professional Group celebrating twenty-eight years in May 2018. She started at John Wiley & Sons as a production supervisor and then moved to United Church of Christ working with specialty printing projects. She currently lives in Queens and is an avid movie goer, Crock-Pot cooker, and a gym rat.

Andrew Rosenau began his career in book publishing after graduating from Boston University, first with Bentley Publishers and later at Allyn & Bacon. He began selling for New England Book Components, covering the New England market, then expanding into Chicago and Washington, DC. He moved on to Arcata-Quebecor where he focused on trade and educational publishing. After over a decade, he joined Edwards Brothers Malloy as their northeast sales manager, in time becoming director of sales, East, and attaining an MBA at Northeastern University in 2009. After five years far afield, most notably in corporate business-to-business sales management at Staples, he returned to Edwards Brothers Malloy; he has since departed in favor of the Command Companies. He resides in Scituate, Massachusetts, with his wife and son where he is active in Bookbuilders of Boston, the Book Industry Guild of New York, and other professional and charitable organizations.

Kate E. Stephenson is a communications specialist, a title that encompasses writing, editing and indie publishing consulting. She founded KEMPS Consulting in 2006, a boutique communications firm, catering to dreamers and doers with something to say. With a focus on personalized service, she offers tailored solutions and custom processes to meet her clients’ specific needs. A lover of language, a creator of narratives, and a weaver of words, she likes wearing many hats. She grew up believing that anything is possible and that you can go anywhere in the world or your imagination through a book.

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Audrey Walen

Shayna Webb Dray

Chava Wolin

Angela Zurlo

Audrey Walen has served as manager of publications at the American Federation of Arts (AFA), a nonprofit arts organization that originates and travels major museum exhibition internationally, since 2014. Recent projects have included Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900 and Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture. Prior to joining the AFA, she served as consultant, project manager, and editor to many national and international arts organizations.

Her award-winning projects include Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano LA (PST/Delmonico, 2017); Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art/Yale, 2014); ASCO: Elite of the Obscure (Williams College Museum of Art/Hatje Cantz, 2011); and Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces (ICI, 2011).

She was art publications manager at the Hirshhorn Museum of Art from 2001 to 2004, and the founding editor of the Themes & Movements series with Phaidon Press, London.

Shayna Webb Dray is the executive director of operations at Kaplan Publishing and chair of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s supply chain committee. A champion of continuous improvement, she is passionate about exploring new innovations in manufacturing and distribution, with a focus on creating high-quality learning products at Kaplan. Through her work on the supply chain committee, she aims to foster cross-industry collaboration and ongoing improvements throughout all facets of the publishing supply chain. This includes exploring new manufacturing and antipiracy technologies, as well as evaluating and leveraging new industry opportunities. She is dedicated to community service as a member of the New York Junior League, and is a winner of BISG’s 2016 Distinguished Service Award.

Chava Wolin has worked in children’s book production for over twenty years. She started her career at Blaze International Productions, a children’s book packager, where she learned the ins and outs of novelty books. In 1998 she moved to Simon & Schuster Children’s Division where she is currently a senior production manager supervising the BFYR and Paula Wiseman imprints.

An avid book lover, she thoroughly enjoys working with her peers to create beautiful books while paying special attention to details to make each book unique. During her tenure at Simon & Schuster, she worked on The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi, Derek Jeter’s middle grade novels, multiple series from bestseller Stu Gibbs, and, most recently, Hillary Clinton’s picture book, It Takes a Village. She lives with her husband and three children in New Jersey, and is currently reading all of the Harry Potter series aloud to her daughter and loving every moment.

Angela Zurlo fell into children’s production by chance, despite having little interest in children’s books or production. But it must have been divine intervention, because ten years later she still marvels over pretty text stock or the fabulous use of foil stamping. She devotes her skill and passion to HarperCollins Christian Publishing as assistant manager, working with Tommy Nelson and Zonderkidz. Previously, she bounced from Simon & Schuster to Workman Publishing and back, from reprints to first prints and back. Her repertoire includes everything from one-color novels to elaborately constructed pop-up books. She holds an MS in publishing from Pace University and is a former co-chair of the New York Book Show. When not creating or reading books, she is involved with her local parish, plays flute for the Montclair Gamer Symphony Orchestra, and definitely does not get lost hiking in the woods.

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Bo ok Show Corporate Sponsors

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SUPPORTER

Donation of $500

MAPLE PRESS

290 Book Show Corporate Sponsors

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THANK YOU

The Book Show Committee would like to acknowledge and thank the following companies without whose donation of services and materials the 2018 New York Book Show would not be possible:

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The 32nd Annual

is a member-operated professional organization composed of individuals from every aspect of the book publishing and book manufacturing industries. It sponsors educational seminars and trips, holds informational programs, and helps raise money for the Literacy Assistance Center, in addition to creating opportunities for junior level publishing people to learn from a variety of senior staff. Originally the Bookbinders’ Guild of New York, the Guild was formed in 1925 by a group of thirty-five craftspeople from the many binderies in and around New York City.

These pioneers gathered monthly to discuss issues, brainstorm through common problems, and address areas for improvement.

These engagements helped develop many of the processes that we take for granted today. To become a member of BIGNY, or to join one of our organizing committees, please contact any member of the executive board or visit our website at bigny.org.

THE BOOK INDUSTRY GUILD OF NEW YORK (BIGNY)

the 32nd annual new york book show

A BOU T BIGNY

Presented by the Book Industry Guild of New York

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