Week 6, Item #10 - YA Query Critique from Editor Diana M. Pho
Diana M. Pho, an editor at Tor Books, is offering the following:
- a YA query critique

Diana M. Pho is a two-time Hugo Award-nominated editor at Tor Books and Tor.com Publishing, as well as a scholar and playwright. She is also known for running Beyond Victoriana, an award-winning, US-based blog on multicultural steampunk. Recent academic publications include articles in the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies and Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Novels she has edited have won the Thriller and the Ditmar Awards, and become finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult. Diana currently lives in New York City.
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