Leading the Quality Reading Material team with children's publishing and ecosystem advocacy efforts.

Commissioning, developing, editing, and art directing children's picture books on a variety of themes; coordinating translation into Indian languages.Conducting research on children's literature in India and exploring co-publishing and licensing opportunities.Facilitating and leading workshops for writers, illustrators, translators, and government school employees around children's literature.

In the last 5 years, I have worked on some of OUP India’s bestselling courses and products. My range of duties have involved:1. Commissioning and working with content creators2. Shaping proofs-of-concept for products according to market requirements3. Developing manuscripts for books, and copyediting and proofreading to see them to print4. Creating and sourcing digital content for marketing and sales campaigns5. Liaising with authors, illustrators, designers, typesetters, voice artists, animators and digital vendors.

Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America with over a million unique monthly views. I wrote blog posts about Indian books, and also authored articles around feminism, and internet and pop culture for them. An archive of my posts is here: bookriot.com/author/deepali-agarwalMy work involved:1. Detailed research around the topic2. Writing blog posts on WordPress, keeping SEO guidelines and style guides in mind3. Hyperlinking to past content and external sources4. Meta-tagging for best SEO practices5. Writing copy for social media pushes for the posts6. Using Canva to create images for social media posts