What are you reading at the minute?
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
What is the best thing about going to international book fairs?
The in-person conversations and opportunities to meet new people who share the same values in book publishing
What was your first job in the book world?
International literary scout.
Is your reading preference for physical books, audio, ebooks, and why?
Nothing can replace the immersive, comforting and tactile pleasure of reading physical books.
What is your favourite Italian food?
Does wine count as food? Though after Bologna the food I crave most is tortellini in brodo.
What do you consider to be publishing’s greatest threat at the minute, and why?
Big Tech. They’ve shown again and again that for their own insatiable race for money and power they will devalue books, authors, translators, copyright, truth, democracy, humanity…
Biography
Jessica runs her own agency Craig Literary, based in Spain. She has worked in New York and Edinburgh and represented many award-winning writers.