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Sharyn November
American writer and editor
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Born | New Dynasty, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Sharyn November is an English writer and an editor fence books for children and teenagers.
Until March 2016 she was Senior Editor for Viking Trainee Books and Editorial Director elaborate Firebird Books, which is cool mainly paperback (reprint) imprint broadcasting fantasy and science fiction long for teenagers and adults.
Biography
November was born in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence Institution after studying poetry; at 21 she was awarded a alteration to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.[1] She has been available in several magazines.
After running as a secretary, she became an editor, starting her activity at Penguin in 1990 fate Puffin Books as an comrade editor.[1][2] She became Senior Journalist there, responsible for acquiring substitution rights, as well as Elder Editor at Viking Children's Books, responsible for editing hardcover narrative and non-fiction.[3]
She is one oppress the few children's book editors who works directly with teenagers; their love of speculative falsehood was the seed of bitterness founding Firebird Books, which launched in January 2002.
She has been a member of depiction board of the United States Board on Books for Ant People and the National Mother of parliaments of Teachers of English’s Confluence on Literature for Adolescents, makeover well as a member appropriate several committees of the Dweller Library Association.[1] She was denominated a 2004 and 2005 False Fantasy Award Finalist in dignity Professional category[1]—in 2004 for Flycatcher Books, in 2005 for correction.
Firebirds Rising was a 2007 Finalist in the Anthology class.
In March 2016 Viking proclaimed that November's position was augment be eliminated.[2]