Lisa Rojany Buccieri

Who is Lisa Rojany Buccieri?

Lisa Rojany-Buccieri is a publishing executive with 15 years' experience in the industry. Lisa has also written nearly 40 children's books and co-written one NY Times bestselling adult nonfiction hardcover, Fund Your Future (Berkley, 2002) with Julie Stav. Her books have received various accolades, such as reaching Number 1 on the Publishers Weekly Bestseller List two years in a row (Make Your Own Valentines, PSS/Putnam), and winning the American Bookseller's Pick of the List (Giant Animal Fold-Outs: Kangaroo & Company, PSS/Putnam). King Arthur's Camelot (Dutton) was selected to be a Book of the Month Club selection; Child Magazine chose her Exploring the Human Body (Barron's) as one of its Best New Parenting Books; and The Magic Feather (Troll) won a Parent's Choice Silver Honor Award.

Lisa is currently spearheading a new children's book packaging and publishing division at Americhip Books, focusing on integrating light, sound, animation, paper engineering, and other cutting-edge technologies with stories and art. She has been Editorial/Publishing Director for Golden Books, Price Stern Sloan/Penguin Group USA, Intervisual Books, Gateway Learning Corp (Hooked on Phonics), and others. She is often called upon to speak about children's publishing, writing, and editing at U.C.L.A. Writer's Program Extension courses and other venues. Right now she is working on a book for Wiley entitled Writing Children's Books for Dummies (due out in spring 2005). She also runs her own company, Editorial Services of Los Angeles, in which she helps other writers make their work the best it can be.