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Danielle Perez joined Berkley in 2010 as an Executive Editor, and she focuses on commercial and upmarket commercial fiction, including suspense, psychological suspense, thrillers, contemporary women’s fiction and book club fiction. Before joining Berkley, she was a Senior Editor at Bantam, where she worked with New York Times bestselling authors Tami Hoag, Harlan Coben and Jonathan Tropper.

Executive Editor Kerry Donovan joined Berkley in 2004. She acquires upmarket commercial fiction, historical fiction, and romance. Recent and forthcoming titles include Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West, You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley, The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin, and Well Met by Jen DeLuca.

Tracy Bernstein is Executive Editor at Berkley. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before finding her natural habitat at more commercial publishers like Kensington and Pocket Books. She joined New American Library in 2002 and, despite a fear of driving, merged smoothly into the Berkley lane. In addition to overseeing the Signet Classics line and the extensive Berkley backlist, she acquires and edits fiction, memoir, and true crime. The New York Times-bestselling authors she has worked with include Jen Lancaster, Montel Williams and Al Roker.

Executive Editor Amanda Bergeron joined Berkley in October 2016. She acquires upmarket commercial women’s fiction—both historical and contemporary—book club fiction, and psychological suspense. Some recent and upcoming titles include Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, The Au Pair by Emma Rous, and Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen.

Cindy Hwang is Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley. She joined Berkley in 1994 and has acquired and worked with a roster of bestselling authors including Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sylvia Day, Christine Feehan, Maya Banks, Nalini Singh, Karen White and Jasmine Guillory. Cindy was heavily involved in growing Sensation into a leading romance imprint, and in the development of the digital imprint InterMix.

Tom Colgan is the Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley. He started his career at Berkley in 1985. In those days he worked on everything from the novelization of the movie ET: The Extraterrestrial to westerns. He then spent six years at Avon/Morrow and returned to Berkley as an Executive Editor in 1996. He has worked with such bestselling authors as Ed McBain, Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, and Tom Clancy.