Michele Pezzuti is an acquiring editor for McGraw-Hill trade. She joined the company as an editorial assistant and has been with the company for five years, working her way up from the ranks. Before joining the company, she worked in the editorial department at Hyperion. Here, she talks about her acquisition interests and what she likes about publishing.

Kim Kanner Meisner is a senior editor at Harmony/Crown Publishing Group/Random House. She has been with the company for 2 1/2 years, and in book publishing for more than 11 years. Here, she talks about her acquisition interests and what she likes about publishing. She began her career as a publicity and marketing intern at The Noble Press, a tiny Chicago publisher. She then became a sales rep for the college division of St. Martin’s Press, and later an assistant at ICM.

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