A fifteen-episode podcast following 'See You in the Cosmos' from manuscript to published novel, featuring interviews with the publishing insiders who worked on it.
There’s the publisher—the publishing house, a company that puts out books—and then there’s the publisher—a specific person and role within that compan...
This week we talk once again with our Penguin Young Readers publicists Lindsay Boggs and Kaitlin Kneafsey, and with our sales rep John Dennany, about ...
We’ve talked a bit about marketing in past episodes; this week we go more in depth with Julia Teece from Penguin Random House (UK) and Alexis Watts fr...
See You in the Cosmos is on the shelves of most bookstores in the English-speaking world. But it doesn’t get there automatically. Booksellers have to ...
See You in the Cosmos has been reviewed in newspapers and magazines like The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and TIME for Kids. But media coverage ...
This past Thursday and Friday, I was in San Antonio for TLA—the Texas Library Association’s annual conference. I brought my microphone. In this episod...
See You in the Cosmos was born out of audio; the novel is written as transcriptions of the recordings that the main character, Alex, is making on his ...
This week on the podcast we talk once again about design—the design of the book’s interior. We hear from Jason Henry, senior designer at Dial Books fo...
You’ve met my editors; now meet my copyeditors. This week we hear from Regina Castillo, Copy Chief at Dial Books for Young Readers, about what copyedi...
We've come back to where we began our story: roughly eight months out from publication. We pause for a moment before digging into the even more behind...