New Year, New Job
Over the 15 years or so that I’ve been doing Beatrice, I’ve held a couple different jobs—most recently, I’ve been freelancing for several years, primarily through a “semi-permanent” gig at GalleyCat. But starting tomorrow, I’m taking a more directly active role in the book publishing industry by joining Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as the director of e-marketing strategy. I’m pretty excited about this; after years of commentary on GalleyCat about how books can be marketed effectively through online channels, I’m getting an opportunity to put my ideas to the test… and doing it with some of the best frontlist books available today.
This blog is, and will continue to be, dedicated to introducing readers to books and writers from a variety of sources, and I’m not going to stop doing that. I’ve been thinking carefully in recent days about how much attention I’ll be giving on Beatrice to the books I work with, and carefully considering how other blogs written by publishing industry professionals, like Publishing Insider and Books on the Nightstand, deal with the issue. That thought process is still ongoing, but in the long run, transparency is my watchword; when I choose to write about HMH books, the connection will be made clear to you.
3 January 2010 | uncategorized |
Writers Finding Themselves a City to Live In
You might remember about a month ago, when I hosted a discussion at Borders with Jeff VanderMeer, Jeffrey Ford, and Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG about the intersections of visionary architecture and science fiction/fantasy. Well, SF novelist Jon Armstrong was there to record the proceedings for his podcast, If You’re Just Joining Us, and now everyone can listen in. It’s a little over a half-hour in length, and although I sometimes felt a little hesitant in my questions (and I can really hear it listening to the playback), the three authors had great answers and will give you a lot to think about.
I hope you’ll track down their books, and you should also visit Jon’s website, where you can get a look at his novel, Grey, which I read two years ago at the prompting of a mutual colleague and thought was fabulous the same way I loved the Frederick Pohl/C.M. Kornbluth collaborations growing up.
17 December 2009 | uncategorized |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
