This Wacky World of Writers: How To Become an Editor

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In this wacky world of writers, very few people end up exactly where they imagined they would end up in the beginning. I grew up thinking I'd be a private detective novelist and I ended up doing investigative reporting for a legal magazine.

Today, we find out how Sam Douglas went from an MFA program to an associate editor's desk at Picador. His firm has published novels like Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies and memoirs like Running with Sissors by Augusten Burroughs.

This is my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a serialized set of weekly interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing...

Jason Boog:
How did you end up as an editor at Picador? What kind of work do you do on a daily basis?

I came to publishing by way of a bunch of other odd jobs in editing, writing, fact-checking, and, most immediately, one year of two in an creative writing MFA program.

I started out as an assistant to the editor-in-chief at Henry Holt, worked there for two years on fiction and nonfiction, then took this job, acquiring books for paperback original, for hardcover
publication (through our sisters companies) and handling reprints.

Picador is a paperback imprint. I'm looking mostly for literary fiction.

Note: If serialized interviews drive you batty, just click here to read the whole interview as it is collected this week...

» Interviewing Sam Douglas: Real Advice from a Real Fiction Editor from ThePublishingSpot
As my Valentine's Day gift to you, I retrieved an old interview from the dusty archives of The Publishing Spot. Way back in 2006, I interviewed Sam Douglas--an associate editor at Picador.Picador has published critically acclaimed novels like Paul ... [Read More]

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