Track Changes: After the Book Deal
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💻 ➞ 📚 What happens between signing the book contract and seeing a book on shelves? Industry experts walk us through edit letters, production schedules, cover designs, first pass pages, sales meetings and more.
We catch up with Jennifer de Leon as she prepares for the release of her debut young adult novel, Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, on August 18. (Hear her First Draft interview here.)
Industry experts Katherine Tegen, publisher and editor at Katherine Tegen Books, at HarperCollins; Alvina Ling, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Little Brown Books for Young Readers (and co-host of the Book Friends Forever podcast); and Stacey Barney, Executive Editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, talk us through walk us through edit letters, production schedules, cover design, first pass pages, sales meetings and more.
Catch up on the series:
Episode 2: Agents: Who Are They, What Do They Do, And How Do You Get One?
Episode 3: Selling Your Book (Part 1)
Episode 4: Selling Your Book (Part 2)
Episode 7: After the Book Deal
Episode 8: Marketing and Publicity (Part 1)
Episode 9: Marketing and Publicity (Part 2), and Definitions of Success
Bonus Eps
Publishing in the time of COVID
Panel: The Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From team
Panel: Publishing From Every Angle
Discussed in this episode:
Publishing seasons
Edit letters
Deadlines
Copy Editing
Sample Pages
Covers
Advance Reader Copies, or Galleys
Sales Meeting or Sales Conference
Acknowledgments
More Information:
“Edit Letters in Traditional Publishing” by Susan Dennard
“Editorial Letters and Line Edits in Traditional Publishing” by Susan Dennard
“Understanding Copy Edits as an Author” by Susan Dennard
“How a Cover is Born” by Susan Dennard
“Understanding First Pass Pages” by Susan Dennard
Track Changes is produced by Hayley Hershman. Zan Romanoff is the story editor. The music was composed by Dan Bailey, and the logo was designed by Collin Keith.
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