Pamela Dorman Books
Overview
Pamela Dorman Books has focused on fiction—especially well-written, accessible debut fiction—since its founding in 2008 by Pamela Dorman, Vice President and Publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking. In addition, the imprint also publishes upmarket suspense fiction and occasional nonfiction, including memoirs, psychology and personal development, inspiration and spirituality, and books geared toward women’s interests.
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Meet the Team
Pamela Dorman, Senior Vice President and Publisher
Pamela Dorman is senior vice president and publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. In her more than thirty years at Viking Penguin, Dorman has published multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestsellers by Kim Edwards, Helen Fielding, Gail Honeyman, Sue Monk Kidd, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Jojo Moyes. Other New York Times bestselling authors include Ashley Audrain, Paolo Giordano, Shari Lapena, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, and Rosie Walsh.
Dorman has published New York Times bestselling memoirs by Kelly Corrigan and Julie Metz, and bestselling inspiration by Martha Beck, as well as #1 New York Times bestselling author Maria Shriver. She began her publishing career at St. Martin’s Press and is a summa cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University.
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Jeramie Orton, Senior Editor
Jeramie Orton (she/her) joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2015, after working at Oxford University Press. She is interested in atmospheric domestic thrillers, dark psychological suspense, mystery and some crime fiction, as well as fresh dystopian narratives and general upmarket commercial fiction. Recent and forthcoming authors she edits include Sarah Pearse, Bea Setton, Shari Lapena, Martha Beck, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, Claire Daverley, and June Gervais, among many others.
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Seema Mahanian, Senior Editor
Seema Mahanian rejoined Pamela Dorman Books/Viking as Senior Editor in 2023. She was previously Senior Editor at Grand Central Publishing where she published New York Times bestsellers Seven Days in June by Tia Williams and What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster. She also edited award-winning and national book club pick authors including Salma El-Wardany, Destiny O. Birdsong, Yusef Salaam and Claire Jiménez, among others. She is interested in character and voice-driven fiction, and novels that examine identity and contemporary life, and amplify BI&POC voices. Seema previously helmed the digital imprint Byliner at Pronoun, a publishing start-up, and was an independent editor for several years. She began her editorial career at Pamela Dorman Books and Scribner, but before editing books, she was selling them in a small seaside bookstore in her Australian hometown, which actually sounds like the perfect beginning to a novel.
Marie Michels, Associate Editor
Marie Michels (she/her) joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2020, after beginning her career in literary agencies. She has been fortunate to work with a wide range of authors, from New York Times bestsellers Ashley Audrain and Clare Pooley to the late, revered spy novelist John le Carré. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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Jane Glaser, Editorial Assistant
Jane Glaser joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2023, after beginning her career at Diversion Books. She is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and holds a BA in English, summa cum laude, from Cornell University.