From the Editors: Tricia Boczkowski of Simon Spotlight Entertainment

'We put our authors through the airport test: If I got stuck in an airport with this person for eight hours, could we hang?'

June 6, 2006

Name: Tricia Boczkowski
Age: 32
Title: Executive Editor
How long have you been at Simon Spotlight Entertainment? I've been at S&S (Simon & Schuster) for five years, and we launched SSE a year-and-a-half ago.
How long have you been in publishing? Ten years.

mediabistro: Please give an overview of Simon Spotlight Entertainment, and how it's evolved since its inception.

Boczkowski: We set out with the goal of publishing books for the 18-to-34-year-old demographic, in the hopes of reaching readers who weren't necessarily being catered to by other imprints. By designating an age range—...

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