How NY Times Bestselling Author & Publishing Exec. Jenny Jackson Writes
How NY Times Bestselling Author & Publishing Exec. Jenny Jackson Writes
How NY Times Bestselling Author & Publishing Exec. Jenny Jackson Writes
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New York Times bestselling author and Knopf Executive Editor, Jenny Jackson, spoke with us about balancing life as an #authormom, editing bestsellers, finding standalone books, and her anticipated second novel, THE SHAMPOO EFFECT.
Jenny Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street, a graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing Course, and a Vice President and Editorial Director of Fiction at Alfred A. Knopf.
Her second novel, The Shampoo Effect (Pamela Dorman Books; June 30), was named a most anticipated book of 2026 by the New York Times, described as “a frothy novel of love, money, sex, and friendship,” [about] “an ambitious young woman [who] insinuates herself into a tight-knit social set, shaking up friendships and marriages in a small seaside town.”
New York Times bestselling author Coco Mellors said, “Jackson has a rare knack for capturing the intensity of old friendships and the way love, jealousy, money, and history combust until everyone is behaving (deliciously) badly.”
Jenny Jackson is a prominent figure in the publishing world, having edited numerous high-profile works, including Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, CrazyRich Asians by Kevin Kwan, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and Cormac McCarthy’s final books, among others.
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In this file Jenny Jackson, Milena, and I discussed:
Why she has the "shortest resume in all of publishing"
What 23 years at Penguin Random House have taught her
How John Updike inspired her latest
The number of pages it takes her to know if your voice works
Why you need to reject “rise and grind” culture and write whenever you can
And a lot more!
Show Notes:
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The Shampoo Effect: A Novel by Jenny Jackson (Author)
Jenny Jackson Amazon Author Page
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