THE CHANGING WORLD OF BOOK PUBLISHING
Posted: April 24, 2012
Amy Einhorn, Publisher and Vice President of Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, and Ben Schrank, President and Publisher of Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, talk about the changing business of book publishing and how, as editors, they try to predict which books will be bestsellers.
BEN SCHRANK ON THE ART OF COMPARTMENTALIZING
Posted: March 30, 2012 | By: Maryann Yin
Novelist and publishing executive Ben Schrank has mastered the art of compartmentalizing his life.
During business hours, he is the publisher of Penguin Young Readers Group Razorbill imprint, but he has maintained a writing life as well. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish his adult novel (Love Is a Canoe) in February.
We caught up with him to ask about how he manages to juggle these two different roles.
Q: How did you land your book deal?
A: My wife ran into [literary agent] Suzanne Gluck at a party and they talked about what I was up to.
I ended up sending Suzanne the book and she said she wanted to represent it. We went through a lot of revisions but eventually she sent it out. A bunch of different people liked it but Sarah Crichton seemed to like it the best...
