Leila Siddiqui is a Senior Manager of Digital Strategy at DK, a division of Penguin Random House. She previously worked for Simon & Schuster and Dutton, and is a freelance book marketer on Reedsy. Her titles range from romance, historical fiction and contemporary fiction to nonfiction such as memoirs, travel, history, and popular science. She has worked on titles by such New York Times bestselling authors as B. Dylan Hollis, Ian Bremmer, Lisa Gardner, Daniel Levitin, the artist Halsey, and Sean Carroll. Leila is also a writer whose next gothic horror novel, The Glowing Hours, releases in February 2026.
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