Sangeeta Mehta has worked in the book publishing field since the late 1990s. She has been an acquiring editor at both Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (the children's division of the Hachette Book Group) and Simon Pulse (the teen paperback division
of Simon & Schuster). At Little, Brown, she worked with debut authors and some of the most prominent names in publishing. At Simon Pulse, she acquired and edited commercial fiction and non-fiction and ran two paperback series. She later returned to Hachette to freelance-edit a New York Times bestseller. She currently consults on book projects for corporate and independent book publishers, boutique literary agencies, and individual authors.
Prior to working in New York publishing, Sangeeta was a projects manager/reader for West Coast literary agents Margret McBride and Charlotte Gusay, who focus on adult non-fiction and literary fiction, respectively. She has attended all major industry conventions and has spoken at several writers’ conferences, including the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference, the Kriti South Asian Literature Conference, the South Asian Journalists Convention, and the La Jolla Writers Conference.
Sangeeta has edited, co-edited or consulted on books by the following authors, among others:
