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Wish Fulfillment Every Day: A Conversation with Rachel Kahan, Executive Editor at William Morrow
An editor should be the type of person who’s very aware of what people are talking about and what’s going on in the world.
Jan 15
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Tough Categories: Five Top Book Editors on Publishing Memoir and Essay Collections
Sep 3, 2025
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Merchants of Culture: A Conversation With S&S Editor Yahdon Israel
Oct 2, 2025
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The Package Matters: A Book Media Roundtable with Five People Who Know What They Are Talking About
Mar 25, 2025
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+ some semi-related thoughts on the relationship between Substack and book sales with 1.5 case studies
Jan 7
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How To Setup a Really Simple Preorder Campaign for Your Book (and How to Get Fancy, Too)
Nobody wants to talk about preorders, so I am talking about preorders.
Dec 18, 2025
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Fiercely Independent: A Roundtable Chat With Three Indie Booksellers
"Bookstore events often operate at a loss" & other things I learned talking to some booksellers
Dec 4, 2025
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On Literary Apprenticeship: An Interview with Stephanie Delman and Elizabeth Pratt, Agents at Trellis Literary Management
I spoke with an established agent of literary fiction & her assistant/fellow agent to share how agents learn to agent & what it's like to work with a…
Nov 14, 2025
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Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People: An Interview with Alessandra Bastagli, Publisher of One Signal/Simon & Schuster
"I’m a believer that if you have a clear brand, where everybody knows what kinds of books the name on the spine stands for, you are more likely to…
Oct 30, 2025
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Information About Information: An Interview With Cathy de la Cruz, Penguin Random House Metadata Manager
On getting your book displayed prominently in a digital window + some recent reading recs for longer and darker nights
Oct 16, 2025
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Merchants of Culture: A Conversation With S&S Editor Yahdon Israel
We’re talking about what it means to be in an industry where we’re not allowed to discuss the very thing that makes us professionals, which is money.
Oct 2, 2025
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