Ten Speed Young Readers

Aaron Wehner is Executive Vice President and Director of Business Development for the Crown Publishing Group, and Publisher of Clarkson Potter and Ten Speed Press. During his time in the Crown group, he has served as publishing lead on the acquisition and integration of Rodale Books and Compendium, co-founded the award-winning digital publication PUNCH (sold to Vox in 2021), launched the division’s illustrated licensing business, founded Ten Speed Graphic—the first dedicated adult graphic novel program within Penguin Random House—and launched Crown’s children’s imprint, Ten Speed Young Readers. Aaron oversees the publishing programs of such luminaries and brands as Ina Garten, Yotam Ottolenghi, Martha Stewart, Dolly Parton, Matty Matheson, Marie Kondo, Bryant Terry, Death & Co, and Dungeons & Dragons. On the executive team of Crown, he works closely with the group to shape ambitious, cross-imprint, and multi-book collaborations with the division’s incredible roster of authors.

As the Vice President and Deputy Publisher, Windy Dorresteyn plays a leadership role in list development and publication strategy and execution, working closely with the editorial, design, production, and sales teams. Windy began her career in publishing working on both the editorial and production sides of the business. She subsequently became a well-regarded retail merchandiser, acquiring more than a decade of experience leading business units at high-profile brands such as Old Navy, Walmart.com, and Williams-Sonoma, where she spent four years as the book buyer and co-developed a highly successful private-label publishing program. Returning to publishing in 2016, Windy served as the marketing lead for the Clarkson Potter and Ten Speed Press imprints before joining the Random House team as Marketing Director in 2022, ultimately returning to the expanding Crown division in 2025. She has worked closely with such renowned authors as Yotam Ottolenghi, Bryant Terry, Sam Sifton, Ina Garten, George Saunders, Emma Cline, Yuval Noah Harari, Michael Cunningham, Patti Smith, David Chang, and Jimmy Chin, and with organizations/brands including the New York Times, Food52, and the Stanford d.school. Windy is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied English and art history.

Ginee Seo, Vice President and Editorial Director, leads Ten Speed Young Readers, the children’s book imprint at Crown. She’s interested in acquiring picture books and illustrated nonfiction with a unique look and point of view with appeal to both children and adults. She’s also a lifelong comics reader and loves anything funny, anything that takes risks, anything that takes children and their world and interests seriously, with special attention paid to underrepresented voices. Previously she was Executive Publishing Director of Children’s Books at Chronicle Books; Vice President, Associate Publisher at Atheneum Books for Young Readers, where she also had her own eponymous imprint; and Vice President, Editorial Director at Harper Trophy. She has edited and published many award-winning, bestselling children’s books, from board books and picture books to middle grade and YA novels, graphic novels, and YA fiction and memoir. Forthcoming projects include board books by Lili Chin, picture books by Kobi Yamada and Kate Messner, and a middle-grade mystery debut by Emily Galvin Almanza.

Kelly Barrales-Saylor (she/her), Executive Editor of Ten Speed Young Readers, specializes in unique, engaging books for children that equally captivate their caring adults. She is interested in subversive humor, quirky concepts, lightly goth themes, giftable projects, and anything that helps outsiders (even the grown-up kind) feel seen. She is specifically looking for fiction and nonfiction board books and picture books, as well as middle-grade nonfiction. Before joining Ten Speed Young Readers in 2024, Kelly was Editorial Director of the children’s nonfiction imprint Sourcebooks eXplore, where she acquired and published numerous bestselling and award-winning children’s books from authors such as Chris Ferrie, Raj Haldar, Kari Lavelle, America’s Test Kitchen Kids, and more.

Assistant Editor Adah Li joined Ten Speed Young Readers in January 2025. Her previous experience includes roles within Hachette Book Group, Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Tessera Editorial, Sourcebooks, W. W. Norton, and Abrams. She’s edited across kids’ book categories, from board books to middle grade and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. At Ten Speed Young Readers, she provides editorial support to the team and is building a list of heartwarming, hopeful, and humorous stories to uplift and entertain young readers.

Kelly Booth is the Creative Director at Ten Speed Press, where she oversees a multi–award-winning team of designers. She has shaped the look of more than five hundred titles during her twenty-plus-year career and is recognized across the publishing industry for her ability to merge striking, design-forward aesthetics with a deeply collaborative creative process. At Ten Speed Press, she has led the design of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including There and Back by Jimmy Chin, Project 562 by Matika Wilbur, and the official Dungeons & Dragons Heroes’ Feast series of cookbooks. Her work also includes celebrated collaborations with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and artist Dana Tiger on Washing My Mother’s Body, and with fantasy illustrator Yoshi Yoshitani on Beneath the Moon. An artist herself, she has held residencies at Joshua Tree National Park, Cape Cod National Seashore, and Château d’Orquevaux in France, and her work has been exhibited at venues like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she continues to mentor and champion emerging design talent and scouts new voices and visual trends that push the possibilities of illustrated publishing. Most of all, Kelly’s passion lies in the collaborative act of bookmaking—helping authors, photographers, and artists articulate their stories and bring their worlds to life on the page.

Allison Renzulli is the Vice President and Director of Marketing for Clarkson Potter and Ten Speed Press. She has worked in lifestyle publishing for nearly twenty years and has developed, executed, and managed campaigns for dozens of bestselling authors, including Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Matty Matheson, Alison Roman, Dolly Parton, David Chang, Yotam Ottolenghi, Amber Lewis, and more.

Katherine Tyler is Vice President and Director of Publicity and Brand Management, overseeing the publicity team for the Clarkson Potter, Ten Speed Press, Ten Speed Graphic, Ten Speed Young Readers, and 4 Color Books imprints. A twenty-year veteran of Penguin Random House, she has launched bestsellers across multiple categories from authors including Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Yotam Ottolenghi, Dolly Parton, Sarah Fennel, Alison Roman, David Chang, Julius Roberts, Jimmy Chin, Meredith Hayden, the New York Times, Michelle Obama, and many more.

Rachel Berkowitz is Vice President and Director of Subsidiary Rights at the Crown Publishing Group, where she oversees domestic and foreign rights across all imprints. Rachel brings expertise in licensing across categories such as business, science, history, memoir, narrative nonfiction, self-help, cookery, gift, and both commercial and literary fiction. Since joining Crown in 2009, she has negotiated rights deals for a wide range of bestselling and influential authors, including Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Deepak Chopra, Ai Weiwei, Greg McKeown, Martha Stewart, Matty Matheson, Peter Attia, Gillian Flynn, Andy Weir, and the forthcoming Empyrean Graphic series by Rebecca Yarros. She and the rights team also represent CPG at major international book fairs. Prior to joining Crown, she was a literary book and film scout for more than a decade.