How to Glow in the Dark

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Sourcebooks, or: How We Survive the Extinction Event (An Unhinged History of American Publishing, Episode 8)
This is a business parable, and psst: if you're a Big 5 executive, I wrote it specifically for 🎶yoo-ooooou.🎶
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
The rest will rise in 2026
On what readers and publishers will want next year (and my own need for rest)
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
"Am I being a diva?"
What healthy author-agent communication actually looks like.
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
Publishing is an ecosystem, not an arena
Helping everyone on the horizon--including your rivals--is the wisest and most supremely self-serving thing you can do.
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
The seven cognitive distortions behind every bad publishing take (and PS, you probably struggle with them too, and they might be destroying…
Just [grunt]...let me [grunt]...get my codependent mitts inside your pretty little problematic skulls before you all give me an actual heart attack.
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
The Frankfurt Book Fair explained
What everyone in publishing is doing this week and why you don’t need to panic about it
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
The goiter incident and the ghosts at the gate
Some thoughts on projection, the publishing industry's signal occupational hazard.
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
The publishing industry has something more complicated than "a gambling problem"
On chaos theory, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, and the peril of neat explanations
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
So you want to publish in multiple genres
How to plan your career if you want to write literature and erotica and cookbooks and board books and history and and and. (Hint: it's a little more…
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
How to do your job while dissociating
On working, parenting, and writing when the world -- and your heart -- won’t stop breaking
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
That’s right: awards, money, and attention generally go to the authors who need them least
In publishing as everywhere else, most windfalls flow to those who already have plenty. Here’s how to cope if you don’t.
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
1997 in a Clown Wig
What can the past tell us about the publishing industry of 2025?
 • Kent D. Wolf
Revisiting “The Man in the Water and the Value of Writers”
Originally published in January, this essay has come back to me many times this week as I watch the immiseration of my hometown from abroad.
 • Anna Sproul-Latimer
When your comp isn't a book
How a movie, a TV show, or even a cocktail can sharpen your pitch
 • Eloy Bleifuss Prados
How to Glow in the Dark
How to Glow in the Dark
Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary.
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