Marcela Landres is the author of the e-book How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You, publishes the award-winning e-zine Latinidad, and is an Editorial Consultant who helps writers get published by editing their work and educating them on the business side of publishing. A member of the Women’s Media Group, she has acted as a judge for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and was formerly an editor with Simon & Schuster.
Landres is one of the co-founders and organizers of our Annual Comadres and Compadres Writers Conference and a great supporter of our literary mission at Las Comadres para las Americas.
Check out these recent interviews:
“We don’t need more Latino authors,” former Simon & Schuster editor turned in-demand freelance editor Marcela Landres says, “We need more Latino acquisition editors,” and in this interview with Jeff Rivera, she explains why she believe this so, the reason why so many Latino books have flopped, and how you can become an acquisition editor too, step-by-step.
Reading, writing and the book business sparks cutting-edge conversation on The Roundtable with Stephanie Robinson. A push for digital sales has the literary crowd sorting through a maze of blockbuster titles, multi-media content and indie bloggers turned print authors. Executive producer of the “Book Look” and I am Barack Obama author Charisse Carney-Nunes joins Marcela Landres, editorial consultant and author of the e-book How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You to weigh in on how industry changes affect their craft. Find out if the pen or key stroke, is still mightier than the almighty dollar.