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Heather Waters
Director, Marketing
Heather Waters joined Gallery Books as a marketing director in February 2024. She manages the brand strategy for media tie-in franchises such as Star Trek Books and Halo Books. An audience development specialist, she also works closely across departments to leverage key partnership and backlist promotion opportunities.

Previously, Heather spent six years with Simon & Schuster’s corporate marketing group, where she was a Director of Marketing overseeing the company’s social media accounts and popular backlist blog, Off the Shelf. She began her career at Pineapple Press in Sarasota, Florida, before joining Macmillan Publishers in 2011 to help launch and eventually lead their romance vertical, HeroesandHeartbreakers.com.

Heather currently lives in Helena, Montana, where in her free time she alternates between hiking the area’s beautiful trails and curling up with great books.