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Julie
Merberg Patty
Brown Pam
Abrams Sarah
Parvis
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Although Downtown Bookworks is brand new (and we’re all youthful and vibrant!), we have 50 years’ worth of collective publishing experience. PRESIDENT Julie Merberg began her publishing career as an editor doing stints at Simon & Schuster, Ballantine, and Perigee before trying her hand at packaging. At Roundtable Press, Inc., where she was a partner for seven years, she developed successful publishing programs for brands as diverse as gURL.com and Parents magazine, as well as authoring a series of children’s books for Chronicle, and conceiving and packaging topical titles with expert authors. Julie founded Downtown Bookworks Inc. in February, 2005 so that she could create books for other busy women and their families. As a mother of four boys, Julie is also committed to producing books that will thoroughly engage and entertain children while teaching them a thing or two. She lives four blocks from the office with her husband and kids and runs laps around the neighborhood when she’s not at her desk. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Patty Brown has been creating books for every major publisher in most major non-fiction categories for longer than it actually feels: twenty-two years as a partner at John Boswell Associates, three years as an executive editor at Roundtable Press, Inc. (where she met Julie Merberg), and the past three years here at Downtown Bookworks Inc. George Plimpton, Mel Brooks, Tom Meehan, John Waters, Mark O’Donnell, Henry Beard, Sean Kelly, Tony Hendra, and Ron and Judi Barrett are a few of the writers she’s been fortunate enough to work with over the course of her almost thirty-year career. She is the co-author of four books: three with New Yorker cartoonist, Victoria Roberts, and one, a New York Times bestseller, with Mad Magazine illustrator, Will Elder. She has a particular interest in developing teen and tween titles. Recent projects include: the ARTfully Inspired craft series (Chronicle Books, 2009); The Marshmallow Incident by Ron and Judi Barrett (Scholastic, 2009); What Was I Thinking? by Barabara Davilman and Liz Dubilman (St. Martins, 2009); and Around the World Cookbook by Abigail Dodge (DK, 2008). SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Pam Abrams joined Downtown Bookworks in 2006. A 20+ year veteran of the magazine business (Harper’s, Parents, Child) and editorial executive at eToys.com and Scholastic, Pam is now focusing her editorial skills on producing books. Pam’s passions include children, cooking, food, crafts, parenting, women’s health, psychology, and work issues. She primarily produces books in these categories, with a keen eye for beautiful photography, sensational styling and fabulous illustration. She is also the author of several books: Now I Eat My ABCs (Cartwheel), Gadgetology (Harvard Common Press), and The Only Bake Sale Book You'll Ever Need (Morrow; co-authored with Laurie Goldrich Wolf). Pam serves on the Board of Directors of several foundations and organizations. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY. EDITOR Working on infotainment titles such as the annual TIME for Kids Almanac has made history buff Sarah Parvis the go-to gal when it comes to all things trivia. She is also Downtown Bookworks’ resident puzzlemaster, having worked on hundreds of picture puzzles for LIFE magazine, TIME for Kids, and Sports Illustrated Kids. Before joining Downtown Bookworks, Sarah Parvis had a bustling freelance career as a writer, researcher, and photo editor (skills that have come in very handy!). She has written Ghost Towns, Haunted Hotels, Creepy Castles, The Quotable Feast, Good Girls Finish Last, and The Kennedy Mystique, and handled the photo research for projects ranging from science to Stetson hats to America’s First Ladies. EDITOR-AT-LARGE Downtown Bookworks’ resident pop culture maven, Sara Newberry came to publishing (and New York!) after working for several years as a cook and chef in her hometown of Dallas, Texas. During her four years at Roundtable Press, Inc., she honed her skills in production, photo research, and copyediting, working on numerous projects, including the Teen People Celebrity Beauty Guide and Will & Grace: Uncensored. She also put her culinary skills to work editing a number of cookbooks including several Atkins titles, and the Half-Baked Gourmet series.
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