Sentences with phrase «coming editors at a publishing house»

Another old - NYC gesture: Our young heroines, Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, are up - and - coming editors at a publishing house.

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At the publishing house she works at, and which Christian bought, she is promoted to fiction editor, a job that comes with a big exposed - brick office and lots of responsibility («Increase the font size by two points,» she commands an underling, with a satisfied smirkAt the publishing house she works at, and which Christian bought, she is promoted to fiction editor, a job that comes with a big exposed - brick office and lots of responsibility («Increase the font size by two points,» she commands an underling, with a satisfied smirkat, and which Christian bought, she is promoted to fiction editor, a job that comes with a big exposed - brick office and lots of responsibility («Increase the font size by two points,» she commands an underling, with a satisfied smirk).

As an editor at a big commercial publishing house, almost all my acquisitions come in through agents.

We asked Cheston Knapp about how he came to land his position as the managing editor at Tin House, to describe what makes a creative nonfiction piece stand out, and for advice on having work published in a literary magazine.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

Did I say, with confidence, that I'd go back to New York and become an editor at a publishing house, a life I'd predicted for myself for a long time, but that never came to be?