Editor @MIRA Books and author of Love Never Dies
I know, it’s old discourse. But seriously, reviews are for readers. A tale as old as time, or at least as old as the first author seeing a review of their book and spiraling (either publicly or privately—hopefully privately): “reviews are for readers.” As an editor, I field a lot of emails and messages from …
Obviously I’m terrible at this blogging thing, but maybe the looming release of my book in 6 months will light a tiny fire in me and I’ll get more consistent. We’ll see. Anyway, welcome back to my rambling. I do have a point and I will get to it, but it might be a while. …
Obviously, I spend a lot of my day reading. But yesterday I had the opportunity to do one of my favorite things as part of my job: talking to writers. I am a co-leader on one of our reading committees at work. We read a bunch of books that are submitted to the group and …
Look, I promise I won’t always comment on the discourse of the day. But I’ve been seeing a few comments recently on line edits and whether they even happen any more. They definitely do (at least for the books I work on)! While resources and people in publishing are definitely stretched thinner, that doesn’t mean …
A couple of weeks ago, someone asked me if I could help them with a book publishing question. I think this business I work in is often very opaque, and I like to be able to demystify things when I can. It turned out to be kind of a big question: What do you do …
