Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
I think printed fiction is what women read.
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.