PPN Noon Zoom: Best Practices … Acquisitions

The first in PPN’s new summerlong Best Practices series, part of our professional development programming, will feature Neal Maillet of Berrett-Koehler, focusing on acquisitions.

The Best Practices series focuses on multiple areas of book publishing—acquisitions, editorial, marketing, and more. Each session covers the most effective ways to work within and outside your department, as well as with external stakeholders, such as authors or designers.

Neal Maillet is editorial director at Berrett-Koehler Publishers, where he has edited nearly 200 nonfiction books since 2010. He began his publishing career 40 years ago as an editorial assistant in New York at Bantam-Doubleday-Dell, where he once rode the elevator with Jacqueline Onassis. He has worked in many nonfiction genres, including trade reference, gardening, natural sciences, business, history, and current affairs. Publishers where he has worked include John Wiley & Sons, Jossey-Bass, Timber Press, and Timber/Workman Publishing, where he served as publisher for 3 years.