Jackie Cantor is a Senior Editor at Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., where she acquires and edits a variety of commercial and upmarket book club fiction and memoir. Her very first acquisition for the company was Liz Nugent’s #1 international bestselling debut novel, Unraveling Oliver, which won the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year, and has just been selected as a Buzz Book for Book Expo 2017. Writers she’s worked with elsewhere include New York Times bestsellers Diana Gabaldon, Eloisa James, Jane Green, Rhys Bowen, Clare Mackintosh (I Let You Go), Hope Edelman (Motherless Daughters), and Kate Furnivall (whose novel The Russian Concubine was an inaugural title for Target’s Book Club); Helen Fremont, author of the award-winning Boston Globe bestselling memoir After Long Silence; Debra Ollivier, author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller What French Women Know; Kate Quinn, national bestselling author of Mistress of Rome; and Lucy Ferriss, author of the national bestseller The Lost Daughter.

Come enjoy a conversation with Senior Editor Jackie Cantor. Learn about book publishing or discuss ideas for your very own novel!