As always, so insightful. I have long thought candour and transparency essential in my job as publicist with all authors (and I've been Kate Atkinson's publicist for her entire publishing life - 30 years). It takes being a grown up, feeling confident, knowing the publishing landscape and movement in the market to understand why some books achieve many readers and others don't. I will to the best of my ability be wholly honest with the writers I work with. And not a week at most a month goes by without them hearing from me, whether their book is just published, publishing soon, or not for many months... or years.
Thanks for this great piece, Katy. This gave me so much useful food for thought about the author/publisher relationship. (I don't know if you remember me but we overlapped at PRH for a while - being reminded of the publisher side is so useful in keeping me grounded now I'm on the other side of the fence.)
As always, so insightful. I have long thought candour and transparency essential in my job as publicist with all authors (and I've been Kate Atkinson's publicist for her entire publishing life - 30 years). It takes being a grown up, feeling confident, knowing the publishing landscape and movement in the market to understand why some books achieve many readers and others don't. I will to the best of my ability be wholly honest with the writers I work with. And not a week at most a month goes by without them hearing from me, whether their book is just published, publishing soon, or not for many months... or years.
This was such an interesting read, full of sound advice. Thanks for sharing your insight and expertise, Katy - it’s really helpful and valuable.
Thanks for this great piece, Katy. This gave me so much useful food for thought about the author/publisher relationship. (I don't know if you remember me but we overlapped at PRH for a while - being reminded of the publisher side is so useful in keeping me grounded now I'm on the other side of the fence.)
This is v gooooood thank you ❤️
Publishing is such a funny old business! Thanks for the insight…
This is a fascinating insight into publishing - thanks for sharing.
Great post Katy
Very interesting and thoughtful post, Katy. Many thanks.