Zoie Konneker, Peachtree Publishing Company, Inc.
Bio
Zoie Konneker (she/her) is an Assistant Editor at Peachtree Publishing Company in Atlanta, Georgia. She has assisted on projects from award-winning nonfiction picture books by Sibert-award winning authors to New York Times bestselling young adult novels, including a Printz Honor book. Her list currently includes YA titles such as VESUVIUS by Cass Biehn, which earned a starred review by Publishers Weekly, and the forthcoming IN THE COUNTRY I LOVE by Alaa Al-Barkawi. In her free time, she can be found bottle feeding foster kittens at 3 a.m. or listening to MUNA. You can find her on Twitter @zoiejanelle and Instagram @zoie.janelle and her website here.
Critique Categories
Portfolio Reviews, PB Dummy Reviews, fiction or nonfiction PB, chapter books and/or early readers, MG, YA.
Roundtable Topics
- Round 1: Creating Believable Children's Book Characters (best suited for novels but applies to picture books)
- Round 2: Developmental Editing 101 — Evaluating your manuscript's greatest needs (best suited for novels but applies to picture books)
- Round 3: From Book Deal to Publication — The basic steps of the publishing process
- Round 4: Creating Believable Children's Book Characters (best suited for novels but applies to picture books)
- Round 5: Developmental Editing 101 — Evaluating your manuscript's greatest needs (best suited for novels but applies to picture books)
- Round 6: Pitches