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Leslie Miller

CEO Leslie “LAM” Miller directs strategy and culture at book production firm and hybrid publisher Girl Friday Productions. Girl Friday is unique in offering two hybrid publishing pathways, one with traditional and one with digital distribution, as well as fully assisted custom publishing for author-entrepreneurs. Girl Friday is also a valued packager working with the Big Five plus innovative indie publishers like Bindery Books. Before cofounding the company in 2006, she served as the executive editor of Seal Press where she acquired and developed projects written by and for women. A published author as well, she has written and ghosted nearly a dozen books on topics ranging from the afterlife to cooking to business to parenting with When They Go Low, We Go Highball: 50 Cocktails to Smash the Patriarchy forthcoming in 2026. She has been a featured contributor on SheOwnsIt.com and Entrepreuner.com and was an award-winning instructor in the University of Washington’s acclaimed Editing Certificate Program for nearly a decade. Miller lives in Seattle.

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