Attention Economy
Leigh Stein, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Catherine Baab, Gabrielle Moss, Lu Chekowsky, Gina Banks, Andrea Bartz, Stacey, Sonia Feldmanhonest advice about making a career as an author today
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a vintage selfie, taken before iPhones had front-facing cameras
In 2009, I put on a black leotard from American Apparel, fashioned a skirt from a purple cardigan, covered my head with a black scarf fastened with a gold butterfly brooch, an...
TODAY: Norton editor Nneoma Amadi-obi
on acquiring literary novels and story collections
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From BookTok to a Literary Debut with Random House
A recording from Leigh Stein's live video
It was such a treat for me to interview Stacey today about the bridge she built from reader to author on TikTok!
writer's writer
When I first started writing about Jason, he was still alive.
I was twenty-four years old, working as the assistant to Françoise Mouly, the cover editor of the New Yorker. My friend Julia, whom I’d met as a teenager on Livejournal, had go...
haunted by history
In March, I received a blurb request that was written in my love language:
Dear Leigh,
Some time last year, I heard you say on a podcast that you loved stories of dark romance and people who are driven to do deranged things by t...
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I work in book publishing and I wrote the novels SELF CARE \ud83d\udc85 and IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS, IT'S MEANT FOR YOU \ud83d\udc07
Feminine Chaos co-host, Opinion Editor, The Canadian Jewish News
Writer, journalist: Slate, Lit Hub, WSJ, CNBC, NBC. Author of Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru.
author of forthcoming MIDLIFE PLOT TWIST (sept '26), a book about how to have a good midlife crisis. lover of beautiful garbage: trashy paperbacks/vintage gossip/haunted lockets/mementos from your nervous breakdown
Emmy award winning advertising writer and former advertising creative director. Author of: "DON'T BUY WHAT I'M SELLING: ON BREAKING UP WITH ADVERTISING AND FINALLY LEARNING TO LOVE MY WHOLE, FAT SELF" (Little, Brown).
I write smart, swoony romance about ambitious women and the men who worship them
Hi! I wrote The Last Ferry Out, Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Herd & The Lost Night. I live with my girlfriend in NYC & the Catskills. In my Substack, I demystify publishing & get vulnerable about author life.
Writer in London. Author of KITTEN, out from Random House (US) and Sceptre (UK). Lover of blue.
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