A look at the creative process behind one of our most striking book covers. Read more →

In a world of endless scrolling, there is something radical about holding a book in your hands. Read more →

I have a confession that might lose me some credibility in publishing circles: I don’t read during the day. Not really. I’ll skim articles at lunch, scan manuscripts between meetings, flip through galleys on the train. But genuine reading, the… Read more →

ScrollWorks Media is seven years old this month. I keep a framed copy of our first catalog on the wall behind my desk, and every few months I look at it and wince. Not because the books were bad. They… Read more →

Last Saturday I spent $187 at my local independent bookstore. This was not planned. I went in for one specific novel and came out with a tote bag full of books, a recommended reading list written on the back of… Read more →

Open any book. Flip past the cover, past the title page, past the copyright information with its tiny forest of ISBNs and Library of Congress data. There, before the story begins, you’ll often find a few words set apart in… Read more →

I got an email last week from a literary agent asking if we could “speed up” the publication timeline for a manuscript we’d just acquired. She wanted the book out in six months. I said no. She asked about eight… Read more →

About three years ago, I received an email from a reader named Margaret. She was 74 years old, lived in rural Vermont, and had just finished reading one of our titles. Her email was four paragraphs long, carefully written, and… Read more →

I reread Middlemarch last winter for the fourth time. The first time was in college, where I found it long and occasionally dull and got through it mostly on the strength of stubbornness and a grade requirement. The second time… Read more →

Every editor I know has a secret list. Not a list they keep on paper or in a spreadsheet, but a list that lives in the back of their mind, slightly embarrassing and completely sincere: the books they wish they… Read more →