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Meet Acquisitions Editor Stacey Hamilton
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Stacey Hamilton joined SAS as a SAS Press acquisitions editor in April 2008. We invited Stacey to share her thoughts on becoming an acquisitions editor, as well as her professional background and personal interests. |
- Tell us a little about your editorial experience prior to becoming an acquisitions editor for SAS Press.
- Prior to coming to SAS, I worked for several years at Oxford University Press here in Cary, North Carolina, first as an administrative assistant, then as an in-house copyeditor, production editor, and finally as assistant managing editor for academic and trade titles. SAS is just down the road from OUP. When I joined SAS, I reduced my twelve-minute commute to nine minutes (not that I'm counting).
- How did you get interested in publishing?
- Having graduated with a degree in English, I first tried high school teaching. When I couldn't convince those tenth graders to love Shakespeare as much as I did, I decided to make a fresh start in publishing, and fourteen years later I still enjoy working with authors and books as much as I did when I first started out. I love the feel and smell of books, and the size of my personal book collection ensures that I will live out my days in my current home.
- What do you enjoy most about being a SAS Press acquisitions editor?
- Authors are the heart of any publishing house, and SAS Press is no different. I enjoy interacting with authors and reading and editing their work. SAS Press authors and I share the same goal: to produce reader-friendly, informative, and high-quality books that help readers use SAS more efficiently and productively. That is what keeps me coming to work each day.
- Anything that you'd like our readers to know about you?
- I love sports, especially football. Fall will find me traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina, to watch the Tennessee Volunteers and Carolina Panthers play football. Although I don't currently participate in any team sports, this year I am training to run (or jog, depending on how loose your definition of "run" is) my first full marathon in Memphis, Tennessee, in December. If running 26.2 miles does me in, then look for the interview with my replacement in issue 1 of the 2009 Authorline.
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