Julia Pastore-Morgan is an editor and writer with over 20 years of senior editorial experience at major and independent publishing houses, including HarperOne (an imprint of HarperCollins), Crown Archetype/Harmony Books, and St. Martin’s Press. She’s worked with multiple New York Times bestselling authors, including Deepak Chopra, Daniel Amen, Cesar Millan, Meredith Baxter, and Pattie Boyd. Attracted to thought leaders who believe positive change is always possible, Julia appreciates strong-voiced prescriptive and narrative nonfiction that informs and inspires in the categories of health and wellness, diet and fitness, lifestyle, self-help, relationships, personal transformation, animals/pets, and memoir. Julia is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: nonfiction

Michele Rubin has been in publishing for nearly 30 years and was a literary agent at Writers House for 25 years, where she represented a wide range of authors, both adult and children’s, from bestsellers to award winners. She was also the literary agent the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr, and founded the King Legacy Imprint at Beacon Press. Michele left agenting in 2013 to work full-time as a freelance editor, writer, ghostwriter, and conductor of writing workshops. She is the Managing Editor of Cornerstones U.S. Her areas of expertise and interest are broad; she is open to all genres. Michele is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: Children's, Middle Grade, Young Adult, all fiction and non-fiction

Noa Wheeler is a freelance editor specializing in books for kids and teens. She spent ten years at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group). She is the editor of many books, including the New York Times-bestselling Grisha Trilogy and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and the Coretta Scott King Honor book How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon, as well as Firebug by Lish McBride, Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen, and Flutter and Hum by Julie Paschkis, among others. Noa is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: Middle Grade, Young Adult, all fiction

Since graduating from NYU with a degree in journalism, Adam Korn has worked as an acquiring editor at Random House and HarperCollins, and as a literary agent at DeFiore and Company. He specializes in non-fiction and memoir and has developed, edited and/or represented authors as diverse as musicians Willie Nelson and Travis Barker, actors Billy Bob Thornton and Lauren Conrad, elite athletes Georges St. Pierre and Jerry Rice, and social entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie. He also has a soft spot for fiction of all types, particularly if they straddle the commercial/literary line ala Ian McEwan or Donna Tartt. He has recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he also teaches karate to children who, if you’re wondering, can beat him up. Adam is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: memoir, narrative non-fiction, humor, pop culture, sports, outdoor adventure, social science, entrepreneurship, martial arts, and fiction of all stripes.

Shannon Jamieson Vazquez is an experienced editor of award­-winning and bestselling fiction and nonfiction, with 15+ years at Penguin Random House (and before that with a literary agency and at a university press). When not reading for work, she can usually be found reading for pleasure, watching movies, or in another country. Shannon is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: Mystery/thrillers, women’s fiction, historical fiction, and narrative nonfiction

Sandy Harding is an experienced editor of award-winning and New York Times bestselling fiction. She spent over fifteen years at Penguin Random House and Penguin Group USA, most recently as a Senior Editor at New American Library (NAL) before pursuing independent editing. In earlier days she earned an MA (and almost a Ph.D.) in American Literature at NYU, taught Expository Writing, and worked in the NYU Writing Center. She loves discovering new writers in unexpected places and nurturing their manuscripts and careers. Sandy is a Cornerstones industry editor.

Interests: Mystery/thriller/suspense, women’s fiction, historical fiction