Kristen Roupenian Is Not Cat Person
As an apt follow-up to both my previous post about a writing career’s sure path to poverty, as well an earlier post about how an unknown writer’s first short story in the New Yorker led to a seven-figure deal with an S&S imprint, comes “What It Felt Like When ‘Cat Person’ Went Viral,” by Kristen…
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Gather ‘Round, It’s Book Club Favorites
S&S has found an ingenious way of getting people to read their books?starting their own book club. According to Publishers Weekly, “Simon & Schuster has announced the launch of ‘Book Club Favorites,’ a new direct-to-consumer initiative intended to promote titles from imprints across the company deemed of particular interest to book clubs.” The books cross…
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