Valentina Rice has been vp, sales and marketing at Bloomsbury Publishing overseeing sales, marketing, publicity and rights across adult, children’s and special interest since 2018. Before Bloomsbury, she spent 15 years in international sales at Penguin and left in 2012 to found an online marketplace for artisanal food. She returned to publishing in 2017 to launch Zaffre Books in the US, an imprint of Bonnier. It can be surprising for authors to realize how long the publication process takes, even when a manuscript is already completed. Can you explain what goes into that timing—selling to bookstores, planning marketing, pitching media, […]
