Unsolicited Manuscript
Abigail Monti, Mallory StockAn inside peek at all things book publishing.
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On the Overconsumption of Books
I recently saw a hot take where someone compared the proliferation of publishing to the rise of fast fashion.
It wasn’t hard to see where they were coming from.
In 2025 alone, more than four million unique ISBNs hit the marketplace—the...
5 Book Event Ideas That Aren’t Just “Reading & Signing”
When your book’s publication date is looming, and it’s time to start thinking about a potential tour (or even just a few local events), there’s one major question on every author’s mind: Well, what kind of event can I offer?
Bookstores—par...
What's In My Work Bag, Publishing Edition
Because Substack is first and foremost something fun (I am my own boss after all!), I decided to write something new and different this week. I love silly little glimpses into people’s inner worlds (like day-in-my-lifes and ootds and apartm...
The Longer I Work in Publishing, the More I'm Convinced It's Sorcery, Psychology, and Guesswork
Working in publishing has fundamentally changed the way I experience books.
I don’t say this in the dramatic, “I can no longer read for fun” sense; I still read constantly. If anything, I probably read more now than I did before entering t...
I Spent My Saturday Learning Literary History in Greenwich Village Pubs
This weekend, my friend and I spent three hours drinking our way through Greenwich Village and learning about the literary titans who once frequented the same bars.
Which, without any context, might seem extremely niche, but knowing us, i...
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