{"id":405,"date":"2010-01-03T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/03\/new-year-new-job\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:17:47","slug":"new-year-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/03\/new-year-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image404\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hmhdolphin.png\" width=\"250\" alt=\"hmhdolphin.png\" align=\"left\" \/>Over the 15 years or so that I&#8217;ve been doing <i>Beatrice<\/i>, I&#8217;ve held a couple different jobs&#8212;most recently, I&#8217;ve been freelancing for several years, primarily through a &#8220;semi-permanent&#8221; gig at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galleycat.com\"><i>GalleyCat<\/i><\/a>. But starting tomorrow, I&#8217;m taking a more directly active role in the book publishing industry by joining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmhbooks.com\">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a> as the director of e-marketing strategy. I&#8217;m pretty excited about this; after years of commentary on <i>GalleyCat<\/i> about how books can be marketed effectively through online channels, I&#8217;m getting an opportunity to put my ideas to the test&#8230; and doing it with some of the best frontlist books available today.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is, and will continue to be, dedicated to introducing readers to books and writers from a variety of sources, and I&#8217;m not going to stop doing that. I&#8217;ve been thinking carefully in recent days about <i>how much<\/i> attention I&#8217;ll be giving  on <i>Beatrice<\/i> to the books I work with, and carefully considering how other blogs written by publishing industry professionals, like <a href=\"http:\/\/publishinginsider.typepad.com\/\"><i>Publishing Insider<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/booksonthenightstand.com\/\"><i>Books on the Nightstand<\/i><\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the 15 years or so that I&#8217;ve been doing Beatrice, I&#8217;ve held a couple different jobs&#8212;most recently, I&#8217;ve been freelancing for several years, primarily through a &#8220;semi-permanent&#8221; gig at GalleyCat. But starting tomorrow, I&#8217;m taking a more directly active role in the book publishing industry by joining Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as the director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}