Marcela Landres is the author of the e-book How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You, and is the Publisher of Latinidad®, an award-winning e-zine which was chosen as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers by Writer's Digest Magazine. She helps writers get published by editing their work and by advising them on how to manage their writing careers, including how to find the right agent. She works with writers of all backgrounds in fiction and nonfiction, and specializes in helping Latinos get published.
She was formerly an editor at Simon & Schuster where she acquired and edited the bestselling authors Karen Rauch Carter and Dora Levy Mossanen, as well as oversaw the award-winning Spanish language imprint Libros en Español. Marcela is the co-founder of The Comadres and Compadres Writers Conference and has served on the board of Kweli, a literary journal for writers of color, as well as the Brooklyn Literary Council which helps organize the Brooklyn Book Festival. In addition, she is a member of the Women's Media Group, Editorial Freelancers Association, and Las Comadres. She speaks frequently for organizations such as the New York Round Table Writers’ Conference, Columbia University, and National Hispana Leadership Institute. A graduate of Barnard College, she has been a Peer Panelist for the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture Fund for the Arts, on the Literature Panel for the New York State Council on the Arts, and was a judge for the Beyond Margins Award for PEN and the Latino Book Awards. The media, including The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and Writer’s Digest, often quotes her as a publishing expert.
Raised in the projects of Long Island City, Queens as the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants, Marcela is one of the few Latina editors in book publishing. She can be reached by visiting: Contact.
