Darcy Evans Email & Phone Number

Remote

• Meticulously researched and forecasted estimates for over 50 client publishers including: Viz, Little Bee, Printer’s Row, Mattel, North South, Tanglewood, TRA, etc. for Amazon.• Managed the Amazon Editor’s Picks presentation, creating the Power Point, Edelweiss catalog, and participating in the group presentation that has resulted in multiple Editor’s Picks and Amazon excitement for key client titles.• Provided weekly and quarterly Amazon sales analysis for key client publishers, looking at pre-orders, sales spikes, and in-stock metrics. • Created a meeting with key players within Simon & Schuster to streamline solutions for Amazon client problems that improved the average solve rate by months.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Teaching a variety of hybrid classes with the School of Botanical Art and Illustration. In 2024 I’m doing a series of lectures on illustrating for children. All my courses are part of the Art Exploration program and are open to everyone. My goal is to teach students how to use their art to better tell stories by looking at specific elements such as composition, pacing, creating emotionally compelling illustrations, and building to a page turn, etc. I also want to help students understand the specific needs of children’s publishing so they can apply their incredible creativity more productively. I include such topics as building a compelling portfolio, self-publishing best practices, and how to work within the format. Reviews for my classes have been overwhelmingly positive.

New York, United States

• Lectured on current trends in children’s publishing for an undergraduate children’s literature course. • Provided resources and advice on how to get published to potential future illustrators and writers.

New York

• Product manager for multiple reading club flyers geared at babies through first grade, including board books, picture books, readers, and early chapter books. • Balanced cost to sales to meet strict profit margins for over a million dollars of expected revenue.• Provided sales analytics for babies through early elementary school product. • Negotiated costs with outside publishers for purchased and licensed product. • Worked with international publishers to bring unique product to the US market.

New York, New York, United States

• Worked with our marketing and merchandising department on campaigns to promote individual product. • Reviewed and curated books for multiple ages from preschool through young adult.

Helped a new publishing company become more competitive in the market by doing critical review of their distribution model, reviewing and editing new manuscripts, and providing suggestions to reorganize their website to be easier to navigate.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Updated our title information sheets making sure all content was current and accurate. • Helped manage the master show calendar and conference planning.

Remote

• Independently managed the children’s content for the website. • Provided children’s literature content for social media

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Created and maintained databases tracking advertising to sales ratios.• Provided research support to the CEO on topics such as student loan debt and repayment and international credit counseling regulations.

Maynard, Massachusetts, United States

• Spearheaded the $60,000 fundraising campaign, including creating a donor database, cultivating volunteers, and mapping engagement.

Lanham, Maryland, United States

• Managed co-publishing partners.• Managed over fifty books per year in varying stages of the publication process.• Represented Editorial in designing and implementing a new company-wide database.

Master'S Of Children'S Literature, Children'S And Adolescent Literature

Rigorous Masters of Arts degree program established in 1977 focusing on high level scholarly analysis of children’s and young adult.

Publishing

Activities and Societies: Denver Publishing Institute, graduate program

Ba, English, Religious Studies

Deans List, Cum Laude