The Invisible Weight cont.:

• Agents and authors both assume two hats in this industry: the creative & the business
• As always, social media changed the pub game in many ways.

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Panel: “The Invisible Weight: Agents, Editors, and the Unseen Labor Behind Author Success”

• Agents now have to touch every aspect of the publishing process more so than what was previously commonplace
• Authors need to be attuned to what the current markets are

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Horror Roundtable cont.:

• I brought up that I felt like the reason why horror wasn’t yet to its golden age as it was in the 80s is because those books were pubbed as paperback originals and the price points made them incredibly accessible.

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Horror Roundtable:
• “Pink Horror” aka women doing terrible things is on the rise
• horror’s renaissance is a credit to who ia getting to write the stories and the perspectives they’re writing from

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Global Marketplace cont.:

& women’s health NF having a surge in popularity
• Debuts & literary fiction are hard.
• For authors pubbing in Spanish (especially kid lit)…it’s important to have a direct connection to the community.

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Catching up to updating this thread post post-event.

Panel on the Global Marketplace:
• Fewer publishers are buying on proposal.
• Panelists were seeing foreign/international publishers looking for commercial; platform-driven; alt spirituality

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At #PeopleofPublishing25: CEOs Jon Karp, David Shelley, & Jon Yaged discussed getting books into kids’ hands as a priority…but this discussion can’t happen without acknowledging the slide back in publishing books by & and about BIPOC & queer creators who are most vulnerable under this current admin.

Happy @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social day to all those who celebrate! Absolutely nothing I love more than seeing all my friends and colleagues IRL. #peopleofpublishing #peopleofpublishing25

At the #PeopleofPublishing25 Conference today. If you’re around, say hi! I’m excited to reconnect with great publishing people!

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Am here at #peopleofpublishing25! Very fancy venue this year. I have cards and little about me handouts for editors. Come say hi!

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