People in publishing love to categorize. Walk into any bookstore and you’ll see the evidence: Fiction over here, Non-Fiction over there. Biography in one aisle, Science Fiction in another. Literary Fiction separated from Genre Fiction by an invisible wall that… Read more →

I spent a morning last month talking with a public librarian in Portland who told me something that stuck with me. “Publishers think we are their competition,” she said. “We think we are their best customers.” Both sides have a… Read more →

Every year around December, our editorial team does an informal round-robin where each of us names the book we re-read that year. Not a new release. Not something we read for work. The book we returned to because we wanted… Read more →

Every editor I know has a book (or three, or seven) that rearranged something inside their head. Not books they admire from a professional distance, but books that grabbed them by the collar at exactly the right moment and said,… Read more →

Every author I’ve worked with has had the same fear when they first get their editorial letter. They worry that the editor wants to rewrite their book. That the red ink is going to obliterate what they actually wrote and… Read more →

I have a confession. There are at least forty books on my shelves right now that I have never read. Some have been sitting there for years, spines uncracked, pages still stiff with that new-book smell that faded long ago.… Read more →

I spend an unreasonable amount of time staring at book covers. This is, technically, part of my job at ScrollWorks Media, but I’d probably do it anyway. There’s something almost hypnotic about the way a single image and a handful… Read more →

When we first sat down to discuss publishing a book about Bitcoin, half the room thought we were out of our minds. The other half thought we were late. Both groups had a point, honestly. Cryptocurrency publishing has been a… Read more →

I read about forty debut manuscripts a month. Most of them don’t make it past the first chapter, and that’s not because the writers lack talent. It’s because the manuscripts arrive without a clear sense of what they’re doing, or… Read more →

Our editorial team shares the books they cannot stop thinking about this season. Read more →