Andrea Davis Pinkney: How I Got Into Publishing
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Andrea Davis Pinkney I fell into bookmaking completely by accident. After graduating from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where I majored in journalism, I pursued my one big career dream, which was to work at a high-profile magazine. Fortunately, that dream came true ― and it led me to children’s publishing!
Soon after my last day of college, I went straight to midtown Manhattan, and got a job in the editorial offices of
Mechanix Illustrated magazine. It didn’t matter to me that the magazine was all-things-automotive. In my mind, I’d “made it”. I was working in publishing and living in New York. There was an unexpected bonus to the job. I met my husband, children’s book illustrator Brian Pinkney, who worked in the art department of
Field & Stream magazine, across the hall.
Learning to generate new ideas constantly, and looking for ways to pitch and position these ideas […] would help me become a book editor.
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