Toni Plummer
Editor, Thomas Dunne Books
Toni Plummer began her career in publishing at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press in 2004. The eclectic nature of the imprint’s list has allowed her to pursue a range of literary and commercial fiction, including women’s fiction and crime fiction. Her nonfiction interests include memoir, narrative,advice/relationships, and social issues.
Her taste in mysteries runs the gamut, from gritty police procedurals (Bound by Blood by Rick Nelson) to eloquent historicals (City of Silver by Annamaria Alfieri; set in Peru, 1650) to hilarious cozies (Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely; think Jane Austen meets the classic English mystery). In other fiction, she has acquired The Accidental Santera by Irete Lazo, a debut novel about a Latina scientist who enters the mysterious spiritual world of Santeria, as well as Legacy by Bronx Council on the Arts Fellow Dahlma Llanos Figueroa, a poetic debut novel about a family of women spanning five generations and relating their journey from Africa to the sugar plantations of Puerto Rico to modern-day New York City.
Some of Toni’s nonfiction acquisitions include Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer by Claire Lewis and The Down and Dirty Dish on Revenge: How to Serve It up Nice and Cold to That Lying, Cheating Bastard by Eva Nagorski. She is particularly interested in Latino authors and in books with multicultural themes.
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