Marketing with Mandy~ Samhain Publisher Spotlight~w/ Angela James
Since Marketing with Mandy generally focuses on tips and tricks to help authors market themselves I thought it would be fun to get the publishers point of view on it all. With us today is Angela James, Executive Editor at Samhain Publishing.
Angela, thank you so much for joining us here today. If you could start off by telling us a little about yourself, how you came to be with Samhain and about Samhain Publishing that would be great.
You know, people ask me this question a lot, how I came to be in this job. It’s truly all about being in the right time, at the right place and knowing the right people. I was working first as a proofreader for Ellora’s Cave several years ago and I branched out to helping authors (like Mandy and Michelle). My good friends Jaci Burton and Jennifer Martin told me that Christina Brashear was starting her own company and needed an editor and that they’d recommended me to her. Crissy gave me a test of sorts and hired me immediately. And then asked if I had a clone. Actually, she still asks if that’s possible 
I was one of the first employees of Samhain, the first editor in the door and I’ve been privileged to work with Crissy in the past year and a half in building Samhain to where it is today—RWA recognized, doing deals with NY publishers, with NY authors knocking on our door and producing what readers tell us are high quality, fun books.
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