TODAY: Atria editor Sean deLone
on the missing millennial literary novelists
Good morning!
At 1pm EST today, I’ll be interviewing Sean deLone, an editor at Atria, and creator the Substack Dear Head of Mine.
Sean deLone acquires literary fiction, mystery and thrillers, narrative nonfiction, pop culture, and memoir. His authors include Steve Cavanagh, Jake Tapper, Jill Gutowitz, Nick Fuller Googins, Lincoln Michel, Kashana Cauley, Emily Austin, Paul Bradley Carr, and Mark Edwards.
I’ll ask him:
About the three roles he plays at work: project manager, editor, and investor
Why he thinks we are missing more literary novels by millennials
What he would tell writers who feel overwhelmed by everything they feel they "should" be doing for their careers
What’s on his fiction and nonfiction wishlist
What note he gives the most often to novelists
About what makes a nonfiction proposal stand out and what writers should understand about the market for nonfiction right now
I will interview Sean for about 30 minutes and then open it up to your questions!
If you can’t attend live, there will be a recording available to watch for 7 days.
As a reminder, this is a private, off-the-record conversation, exclusively available to my diamond medallion members. You may not post quotes from the conversation anywhere on the internet, or create content out of my events. Keeping the Chat Room series private allows both me and my guests to speak candidly.