Live Stream Talk - Careers in Publishing/Editorial

Are you interested in a career in publishing? Ever wondered who got to select the best-sellers like the Hunger Games?

Join our live stream talk with one of the leading women in international publishing - Samantha Smith.

Sam Smith started her career in publishing at Little, Brown Book Group where she worked across editorial, marketing, publicity and sometimes, accidentally, production.

She then moved to Scholastic UK as the Fiction and Picture Book Publisher where she spent seven years working with a number of fantastic authors and illustrations including Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo), Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), Liz Pichon (Tom Gates) and Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games).

In January, she started as Publisher: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Picture Books at Pan Macmillan.

She has an MA in English Literature from King's College London and an MBA from London Business School.