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.