Publishing
How the National Book Awards Longlists Actually Get Made
Only publishers can enter a book, and last year's fiction longlist alone was picked from 434 submissions.
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Publishing
An explanation of how books move through a publishing house: submission, acquisition meetings and profit projections, contracts, editing schedules, jacket sign-off, sales conference and publication. Terms are defined as they appear. Intended for authors who want to understand the decisions being made about their book.
Publishing
The Manufactured Star: How Trade Reviews Decide Which Books Get Noticed
Before a single reader opens it, a book's fate is set by an anonymous trade apparatus of galleys, deadlines, and undisclosed rubrics — and the star on the jacket is a passport, not a verdict.