Sara Boncha Email & Phone Number

• Developed and implemented account planning for Scholastic book clubs and fairs, including achieving sales goals for sublicensed and bulk sales of DPW titles, facilitating larger DPW events by utilizing Scholastic.
• Maintained relationships with additional domestic accounts, in particular Junior Library Guild, Bookspan, Thorndike Press, Easton Press, and ABDO Publishing Group, by submitting seasonal review materials, negotiating.
• Drafted, redlined, and executed subsidiary rights and audio purchase agreements under the purview and consultation of DPW legal teams
• Developed annual plans for revenue targets and provided accurate forecast estimates on a quarterly basis in order to achieve annual sales goals

Glendale, CA

• Managed licensing of translation, book club, reprint, and permissions rights, with goals and strategies to achieve double-digit growth year over year
• Actively submitted Disney Publishing Worldwide vertical titles to domestic publishers and 17 foreign agents, negotiated license terms, secured author/franchise approvals, and drafted license agreements
• Enforced brand management of ABC Studios, Disney, and Touchstone properties in licensed editions
• Oversaw monthly accounting close, reconciling all monies received to correct licenses and coordinating with the accounting team to resolve any discrepancies
• Fielded all duplicate file requests from foreign and domestic publishers, negotiating fees and providing accurate production schedules communicated by managing editorial
• Assembled subsidiary rights information for Disney Publishing Worldwide catalogs, along with compiling rights guides for the Bologna and Frankfurt book fairs

Greater New York City Area

• Negotiated all offers for nonfiction adult titles to Direct Brands book clubs
• Managed licensing of large print for adult titles, actively submitting frontlist titles and seeking interest in HMH’s classic, bestselling backlist titles to Thorndike Press, Center Point Large Print, and Random House.
• Fielded all requests for second serial, for both adult and children’s titles, and collaborated with editorial, publicity, marketing, and director of permissions on submissions and licensing for first serial
• Aided the vp, director of subsidiary rights in stand preparations for Frankfurt and London book fairs
• Support tasks involved compiling rights guides for audio, first serial, and translation; tracking contracts from draft to execution; inputing rights information for catalogs; processing advances and fees; granting.

Greater New York City Area

• Created rights catalog of frontlist titles for Frankfurt Book Fair
• Assisted rights director in compiling nominees for book awards and grant funding submissions, both foreign and domestic
• Uploaded titles and metadata to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and Sony for digital sales
• Basic duties involved proofreading manuscripts; writing reader’s reports; researching contacts for reviews; corresponding with authors; preparing mass publicity mailings

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Designed figures and brochures for grant applications and competitive university training programs
• Generated data in Excel tables and graphs for scientific journal submissions
• Fact-checked data required for grant proposals to National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Organized and budgeted grants through financial reports, supply ordering and purchase filing

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Primary liaison for Microsoft Press contract to create Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader formats
• Elsevier Science project contact, reconstructing original book content for Mobipocket readers
• Assisted McGraw-Hill and HarperCollins production teams with multiple e-book format conversions

Bachelor Of Arts, English - Literature & Language

Minors: Spanish and Sociology

Summer Publishing Institute