Maya Petrillo-Fernandez, Editorial Assistant

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Pamela Dorman Books
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.

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.

Jeramie Orton, Executive 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 grounded horror, as well as fresh dystopian narratives and general upmarket commercial fiction. Recent and forthcoming authors she works with include Sarah Pearse, Shari Lapena, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, Bea Setton, Tracy Sierra, Joanna Wallace, and Andrea Mara, among many others.

Seema Mahanian, Senior Editor

Seema Mahanian rejoined Pamela Dorman Books/Viking as Senior Editor in 2023. She is drawn to character and voice-driven fiction, family sagas, friendship and coming-of-age stories, and novels that amplify underrepresented voices and examine identity and contemporary life. Seema was previously at Grand Central Publishing where she published New York Times bestsellers Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (a Reese’s Book Club pick) and What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (a Read with Jenna pick). She edited 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award winner What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez, along with other award-winning and national book club pick authors including Janika Oza, Salma El-Wardany, Destiny O. Birdsong, and Yusef Salaam. She began her publishing 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, 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.

Maya Petrillo-Fernandez, Editorial Assistant

Maya Petrillo-Fernandez joined Viking and Pamela Dorman Books in March 2024, assisting Terezia Cicel and Seema Mahanian. Previously, Maya taught high school English in her hometown of NYC before pivoting to publishing as an assistant at Folio Literary Management. She enjoys character-driven fiction, narrative nonfiction, and literature across genres that sheds light on lesser-known histories.

Natalie Grant, Editorial Assistant

Natalie Grant joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2024. A lifelong reader of women’s fiction, she is thrilled to be supporting Pamela Dorman and Jeramie Orton as an editorial assistant. Natalie comes to Pamela Dorman Books with a background in social science research and Chaucer. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, where she studied English.