The book is done. All the photograph permission forms have been signed, the copyediting changes made, the final page proofs approved. As we speak, the book is at the printer, making 1,200 neatly bound, neatly stacked copies of my little paperback. It’s done. This book, as you will see it, as I will hold it … Continue reading »
A Whale of a Tale: Bookish Vacations and Literary Landmarks
The past month has been a whirlwind of last minute book deadlines and long distance road trips. The boyfriend and I spent a week mid-April in Cape Cod. It was pre-season so it was cold, many things (including the Nantucket Nectar juice stand, curses!!) were closed, and it was generally pretty empty. With our inn, … Continue reading »
Switching Careers: Leaving Law for the World of Words
Name: Erynn Im-Sato Current Title: Sales Rep, Proprietary and Display Marketer Sales Hometown: Torrance, California Graduated From: UC Santa Barbara, 2005 Currently work and live: HarperCollins Publishers, New York My path to publishing: I was an English major in college and I thought I wanted to be a journalist or editor. My first job out … Continue reading »
Keeping a Writing Schedule
Over the summer I blogged about making a writing schedule and designed one in Excel that set aside 14 hours a week for writing. At the time, a lot of you wrote in the comments section that this was an impressive, amazing, unbelievable goal, but I didn’t heed your warnings. I kept looking at the … Continue reading »
Falling in Love with Publicity and Publishing
Welcome to the guest blogging series, So, You Want to Work in Publishing, where publishing professionals share their personal stories of how they broke into the industry. The guest bloggers and I hope that you find our stories encouraging, informative, and helpful in your own path to a publishing career. If you’re a publishing professional … Continue reading »
Build Your Dream Home (in Your Novel)
While walking to my neighborhood gym in the dark the other night, I crossed a bridge over a tiny creek that cuts through my backyard in the winter, a rush of freezing water, and dries up to non-existence in the summer months. I couldn’t see it, but I could hear the gurgle and it had … Continue reading »
So, You Want to Work in Publishing…in Singapore
Name: Jennifer Lien Current Title: Publishing Editor at Taylor & Francis Group Hometown: Waterloo, Canada Graduated from: University of Waterloo, Class of 2011; Joint BA in Political Science and Social Development Studies, Diploma of General Studies in Social Work Currently enrolled in: University of Toronto, Joint MEd with the Sociology of Education department and the … Continue reading »
How a Lifelong Love of Books Led to a Publicity Job
Name: Caroline Nitz Current Title: Publicity Assistant at Henry Holt & Company, an imprint of Macmillan Hometown: Northfield, MN Graduated from: St. Olaf College, 2011 Where you currently work and live: I live and work in Manhattan. Your Path to Publishing: Like many in publishing, I was an English major without the slightest idea what … Continue reading »
Want to Work in Publishing? Don’t Be Afraid to Use Your Connections!
Welcome to the guest blogging series, So, You Want to Work in Publishing, where publishing professionals share their personal stories of how they broke into the industry. The guest bloggers and I hope that you find our stories encouraging, informative, and helpful in your own path to a publishing career. If you’re a publishing professional … Continue reading »
I Love Free Books
How many of you use Goodreads? [counts hands] How many of you enter into those Goodreads giveaways? [counts hands] If you didn’t raise your hand for one or both of the above questions, CHANGE THIS RIGHT NOW. If you love books–which I assume you do, if you’re reading this, because I talk about them quite … Continue reading »
