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TODAY: Atria editor Sean deLone
on the missing millennial literary novelists
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Leigh Stein
TODAY: Simon & Schuster marketing manager Ingrid Carabulea
on Goodreads giveaways, BookTok, and how authors can best collaborate with their marketing team
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TODAY: Simon & Schuster editor Olivia Taylor Smith
on BookTok virality, running an indie press, and moving to Big Five publishing
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TODAY: literary agent Danielle Bukowski
on selling literary novels, genre-bending, and foreign rights
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TODAY: publisher Madeline McIntosh
Authors Equity is trying to change how authors get paid
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TODAY: BookTok strategist Alyssa Morris
what novelists need to know about BookTok
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TODAY: literary agent Kayla Lightner
Today I’m talking to Kayla Lightner, an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary, about representing both fiction and nonfiction.
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TODAY: St. Martin's editor Sarah Cantin
Today I’m talking to Sarah Cantin, VP, Editorial Director, Fiction at St.
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TODAY: literary agent Alia Hanna Habib
In 2023, Alia Hanna Habib was included in Vulture’s “Inside Power” issue. Doubleday editor Yaniv Soha told the outlet, “When a submission comes in from…
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TODAY: literary agent Kara Rota
Today I’m talking to Kara Rota, Senior Agent at Thompson Literary, who represents memoir plus, parenting, pop culture, and mind/body/spirit books…
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TODAY: FSG editor Jackson Howard
Today I’m talking to Jackson Howard, Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and its imprints MCD and AUWA (headed by Questlove).
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TODAY: book publicist Justina Batchelor
on pitching memoir, literary fiction, and nonfiction
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