So thrilled to be working with
@ink176
on her new novel for
@ScribnerBooks
! If you've ever taken the leftover cheese from the charcuterie board at the work function to eat for dinner later, this one's for you
Today's email to Brian Murray and the HarperCollins People team... if you don't want to negotiate in good faith, just say that instead of spreading misinformation about industry salaries!
@HarperCareers
@hcpunion
Can't believe I get to publish a book by the editor-in-chief of the most prestigious literary magazine of all time at the most prestigious literary imprint in America :') Online mags are the future of the culture and don't you forget it!!!
IT'S HAPPENING. I'm writing a dream book on a dream subject with a dream publisher, working with the brilliant
@emilycpolson
at
@ScribnerBooks
! This is SURREAL. Keep going. Keep writing. Put yourself out there. Invent your own qualifications. There are no rules. Live más.
🚨 POETS! 🚨 Scribner is holding an open call for full poetry manuscripts--details linked below. The form will open August 1st at 3pm Eastern and will close August 31st or when we hit 300 submissions. I'd love to read your work!!
@caraweinberger
I love this because it's funny, but also because I found all of this within two miles of my apartment the other day while pretendeding I was backpacking a new city just to feel something
once I write my autofiction debut about a young editor who almost exclusively receives contemporary novels about aspiring writers it's over for you hoes
Just got rejected from a job I applied to in November so I suppose now is as good a time as any to announce I have actually been an editorial assistant at Scribner since March and we are very happy together!!
I'm just an editor... staring at submissions from agents... begging them to send prose manuscripts as word docs not PDFs so I can read them on my kindle and not a backlit screen
TBQ had no idea what was in store when they said "I look forward to continuing to see your name and work out there" after rejecting me, and bless
@bullshitlit
for finding a home for my Taco Bell short story 😈😈
Also for the history books, I rejected my own future editor, the brilliant
@emilycpolson
for TBQ5. I was thankfully unaware of this during one of the most agonizing waits of my life in which I even prayed for divine intervention, but truly, there is no God in creative writing
@tombreihan
"it’s frankly difficult to imagine Swift conjuring flowery language to describe any experiences that she might be having with [Travis]." Cackling.
I literally became an editor because of this 2011 Vlogbrothers video where
@johngreen
explains "the Truth about Book Editors" and talks about getting an editorial letter from
@jsgabel
for the fault in our stars
So thrilled to be introducing the brilliant Jan Carson to North American audiences with this collection of stories that are at turns humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, surreal and incredibly satisfying. My jaw-dropped on the train reading these!
sharing the best news today. I have an American publisher for my next two books
@ScribnerBooks
who publish some of my all time favourite writers. I’ll be working with the brilliant Emily Polson. So grateful for all
@spinningkates
hard work finding me an American publishing home
Context for those not in the industry: this means that Macmillan--which used to have the lowest starting salary of all the Big Five publishers at 35k--now pays the HIGHEST.
can't tweet anything these days without getting accused of being the mastermind of a corporate marketing scheme that has the sinister purpose of getting people to buy books they might actually like
"helen, i see you. hatched from an egg, paddling ever since. born in a land that doubts your claim to it."
Meet Helen of Troy like she's never been written before in
@MariaZoccola
's sharp and brilliant debut collection--my first poetry acquisition for Scribner!
My prestigious editor at Scribner, the most Literary imprint of them all found me because I rejected her from the biggest slop pile of them all, the Taco Bell Quarterly! I swear to God there's no Literary World lol, do *whatever* you want
@hankgreen
Only on Audible/subscription model platforms! Longer audiobooks are priced MUCH higher by the publisher, and Audible eats the difference because what they are selling is a subscription.
I can't believe my first piece of published fiction (post college lit journal) is going to be a short story about a Taco Bell Cantina that may or may not exist, in
@bullshitlit
's summer anthology. Blessed. 🙏🌮
💛 this profile of Sarah Rose Etter! A singular talent & a dream to edit, she's also had boundless enthusiasm for every part of the publication process, which often manifests as deep appreciation for every person working behind the scenes, too. It's been a pleasure & a privilege.
@tayari
The universal is found in the specific, so skip the generalities and tell the story only you can. (From intro to creative writing with the inimitable
@Thing_Finder
)
Happy happy pub day to
@sarahroseetter
and her wonderful (devastating, vivid, sharp, visceral, immersive, brilliant...) novel RIPE!! Look at how far we've come--and what a journey it's been!!
In the past week my bosses gave me flowers and pears and a PROMOTION to assistant editor, so here's to the first six months at Scribner and the incredible books I've worked on so far, with many more to come!!
Love this & love
@sarahroseetter
on getting edits: "Do you want to hear it from [your agent and editor] or do you want to hear it from the fucking New York Times? It's them or it's the Washington Post, so who do you want to tell you that this part sucks?"
Gonna start a fashion line called Pocket, where every article of clothing has at least one pocket. This is not just about pocket justice for dresses and women's pants. We're talking sock pockets. Bra pockets. Secret pockets in your shoes to store a spare key, etc.
Another 2021 accomplishment I'm proud of: I had 9 pieces published in lit mags, submitted my work 85 times, and had 6 new acceptances.
(All linked here: )
*psst* Hank Green is quoting yours truly in this TikTok before he smashes the camera with his excellent new book that pubs tomorrow thank you and goodnight!!
I dedicate this piece to all humanities grads who now feel personally victimized by the fig tree metaphor from The Bell Jar 🗡️📘 Thank you to
@havehadhavehad
for understanding 💀💀
My glamorous publishing life: frantically rifling through the books on my shelf muttering to myself, "Where does the dedication page go again?? Do I include 'acknowledgements' in the table of contents?? How and when to half title page????"
@hankgreen
Hank I hate to break it to you but if that change made it onto the final book I'm pretty sure a design assistant had to compare the copy you sent and the actual high-res print-quality editable file to find that change so they could apply it
#TheSealeyChallenge
day one--Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé. Thanks to the Franklin Park Reading Series for introducing me to this poet last month!
🎉 Pushcart Prize nominations are here! Capsule Stories nominated pieces by the following writers:
K-Ming Chang
@emilycpolson
@karaknick
Mallory Pearson
Teya Hollier
@BooyTweets
Read more about the pieces and authors we nominated here:
#PushcartPrize
not a tweet from the official Israel account showing up in my feed as A LITERAL AD !! the layers of propaganda used to distract from their genocide of Palestinians knows no bounds !!
I emailed Karamo Brown exactly once years ago, and it used to be that every time I started typing my boss's name (Kara) I came dangerously close to emailing Queer Eye's Culture Expert instead. Now Outlook has moved on to suggesting that I'm probably trying to email our CEO (Karp)
At a restaurant with QR code menus, I asked the server if they had paper menus because we didn't have phones with us, but they didn't so she just...handed us her phone??
An absolute treat to meet the brilliant Jan Carson in person today--so excited to be publishing her marvelous North American debut Quickly, While They Still Have Horses in July 2024!
Went to my little sister's wedding 1,200 miles from where I live, and someone tried to set me up with a local mechanic. Anyway I am thriving as the last unmarried sibling and loving my car free lifestyle✨
I love New York but in the last few days I've had some of the best meals of my life (three courses, with wine and coffee) for the cost of a hamburger in Brooklyn that doesn't even come with fries
Get ready for Jules and Poppy and three-legged Amy Klobuchar and some Mormon mommy bloggers to move into your brain where they will live rent free!! This deliciously funny and zeitgeisty and poignant read coming your way in 2024 from
@ScribnerBooks
😎
Today a customer service rep named "Lilith" helped me get back into my Neopets account for the first time in about decade. Would you believe GIGGLE_IGGLE and Ballet_Baby are "dying"
⭐️⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️⭐️
I'm beyond thrilled to share the cover for my debut poetry collection, Helen of Troy, 1993, coming January 14th 2025 from
@ScribnerBooks
! 🎉🎉🎉 Preorder links below.
I'm in love with this cover, and I can't wait to share Helen's voice with y'all in January.
Today I got some BAD NEWS but also a LIT MAG sent me MONEY for a POEM I wrote and ANOTHER lit mag sent me an ACCEPTANCE for a piece of FLASH so while I am NOT okay I am FOCUSING on the POSITIVE
"Understand I need these fragments. To tell it once is not enough." -Emily Skaja, "Dear Katie"
"She had trained herself to look for answers at eye level, / but they were lower, they were changing all the time." -Jenny Xie, "Ongoing"
Wonderful reading at
@HousingWorksBks
!
So honored and excited to be working with Erika, who has such a singular voice on the page and an incredible vision for telling this complex and moving mother-daughter story, exploring the ways what we've learned from those who've left us guide us into the future 💛💛
Time froze in 2013 and only writing for Her made it move. But I wasn’t done grieving. The novel grew with me for almost a decade of growing without Mama.
It’s a celebration now!! Of life, hard work & LOVE! I GOT A BOOK DEAL! This is my mama. I can’t wait to share her with you🖤
@svroundtree
The January Children by Safia Elhillo
Eye Level by Jenny Xie
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Lima : Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
Life on Mars by Tracy K Smith
💛💛💛
Sometimes you spend 45 minutes doomscrolling but then find out there's a case of immaculate conception going on with a pregnant stingray in North Carolina and it was all worth it
Last night at bar trivia there was a poetry-themed round "in honor of the upcoming Tortured Poets Department album release" and not because of National Poetry Month 😭