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Jessica Knoll: Screenwriter and New York Times Best-Selling Author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister

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How Did You Go From Assistant Editor to Senior Editor?

I think honestly, what I had going for me was Cosmopolitan at that time. It was a position where I was doing a lot of writing. So because that's where my strength is, I was able to really stand out. And I also just had like really good advice from my bosses who were the editors that I assisted when an associate editor moved to a different magazine. They were like, you have to ask for it. You don't need to know that I wasn't good at an assistant, but like I can write."

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