Open several years ago and i thinkpossibly even before that. She is the author of the young adult novel lost scars and is an essayist and journalist was written for major publications including the wall street journal, guardian and many others and shes with us tonight to celebrate the release just yesterday of her book tomboy. Please join me in welcoming her. Hello, lisa. This is going to be a very unique experience for the both of us. I have never ever interviewed my author so i am so psyched and excited about this fun exchange that were going to have. I dont get to talk to my authors about their books in this way. Usually where hammering it out editorially through the beginning pages of the process but never in this way can we go back in and talk about it together so this is a great experience for me and thank you forhaving me. Im so happy to be here everyone. So yeah, i wanted to start out i think maybe we should start out by saying how tomboy, this beautiful wonderful book that you
Would you spend the majority of your day doing . That is a tough question because each day is different. I spent a majority of the time working with the publishers of what books are acquiring. With the future in the organization but i spend as much of my time there. How many books sold last year or water their revenues were give us a sense of how big. To give a sense of scale their five publishers that our pretty big. The second is harpercollins third decided Schuster Simon schuster. The last three are within 100 million of revenue of each other all pretty close to the same size. With two really big companies. But a unique feature is of the smallest title towns. We are followed by a substantial number of mitt mellon and grant dove publishing. And then to be selective in of that whole experience that is a unique strength. As of publicly traded company . Our revenues heard 600 million but just acquired perseus that is a 90 million company. That sells like a lot but if you compare that th
Journalism. His books include the New York Times bestsellers smoke gets in your eyes, building a better teacher by elizabeth green, Whitey Bolger and Shelley Murphy and somewhere toward the end by diana and hill which won the National Critics circle award. Other notable authors include lidia gladstone, i poked around his twitter account and learned he is a sometimes musician, someone who is willing to swear on twitter. And on live tv hopefully. Nicole dewey has worked in publishing the last 19 years and is Vice President , associate publisher for little brown and company, she worked with a broad range of critically claims authors including jk rowling, adam hazlitt, kevin powers, Malcolm Gladwell, amazing list, jody cantor, elton john, barbara ehrenreich, nancy pelosi, steve martin, michael caine, and mark haddon. She is council of literary magazines, and eager traveler who lives in new york with her husband and two sons. The president of the Literary Agency in a represents writers of f
And somewhere toward the end by diana and hill which won the National Critics circle award. Other notable authors include lidia gladstone, i poked around his twitter account and learned he is a sometimes musician, someone who is willing to swear on twitter. And on live tv hopefully. Nicole dewey has worked in publishing the last 19 years and is Vice President , associate publisher for little brown and company, she worked with a broad range of critically claims authors including jk rowling, adam hazlitt, kevin powers, Malcolm Gladwell, amazing list, jody cantor, elton john, barbara ehrenreich, nancy pelosi, steve martin, michael caine, and mark haddon. She is council of literary magazines, and eager traveler who lives in new york with her husband and two sons. The president of the Literary Agency in a represents writers of fiction and nonfiction, ranging from Current Affairs like Pulitzer Prize winner henriques journey and men explain things to me and paradise built in hell call in the