![]() ![]() But I definitely loved, and continue to love, kids’ books, and literature in general. When I left Scholastic at the end of the day, I’d zip off to ballet class, but since I hadn’t started studying until I was an adult, there was no chance of a professional career. Leg warmers? Ha! In true 80s style, they were probably ripped. Maybe I was mistaken, but I had the sense that you were an aspirational dancer. So was that your dream at the time? Children’s books? I seem to recall. After a few months, I was learning about MS-DOS and floppy disks. I had a typewriter and about six bottles of Wite- Out. I remember starting at Scholastic when we didn’t yet have computers. And she herself had gotten her start under the famous Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, founding editor of Lucky.Ĭraig Walker used to tell Beatrice stories, truly from a quieter age in children’s publishing. ![]() ![]() Those older, wiser, more experienced editors working side-by-side with much younger people and their new-fangled ways. ![]() At that time, the clubs published some of their own books.Įva Moore was the editor of Lucky at that time, right? Maybe it was always true, but there was a real changing of the guard taking place at that time at Scholastic. I was an Associate Editor in the book group, first on Lucky Book Club, and later in trade books. I was a newly-hired junior copywriter at Scholastic pulling down $11,500 a year and you were. Jan, it’s so nice get reacquainted with you. ![]()
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