What Publishing Is
Doug SeiboldDoug Seibold, founder and president of Agate, on publishing
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What Authors Should Know About Publishing
This was a real pleasure. I first met Rea Frey early in what’s turned into a remarkable career as a novelist, writer, editor, and all-purpose advisor to aspiring authors; I’ve been following her throughout as she went from the kind of nonfi...
Why Returns Still Suck
I first published a version of this piece for the online magazine Book, briefly put out by the parent of Kirkus Reviews back in 2005. Agate was still very new, but my fervor about returns is unabated all these years later—even though return...
Try Things
This week I’ll be in Portland talking to the IBPA Publishing University on the topic of starting your own publishing business. I am giving a four-hour workshop, which sounds pretty substantial but which is still a capsule version of the far...
Why Conferences Matter
I’m quite a few weeks late writing up my thoughts about this year’s Winter Institute, held in Pittsburgh, my first visit to that city. This event kicked off conference season—since WI, we’ve also had AWP in Baltimore and shortly after that...
On Publishing, Artificial Intelligence, Running a Business, Parenting, Failure, Education, Booksellers, and Being a Partisan for Reading
This is my last day in the office before I head to Pittsburgh next week for the big annual “Winter Institute” event of the American Booksellers Association, where I’m going to be delivering a five-minute address to the several hundred assem...
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