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450 Decisions, or the Serendipity of an Editor and their Submissions
#1 Myth: An Editor Rejects a Manuscript Because It’s Not Good
 • Sean deLone
Submissions Part I: How to Read Them
On Reading Empathy
 • Sean deLone
Does Listening to the Audiobook Count as Reading?
Seven Observations Listening and Reading Sandwich by Catherine Newman
 • Sean deLone
The Antithesis of a One-Line Pitch
The Midlist: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
 • Sean deLone

November 2025

Hollywood Needs Publishing More than Publishing Needs Hollywood
2,000 Subscribers, Comments, Questions, and Answers
 • Sean deLone
The One Book Every Editor Wants to Publish
The Commercial/Literary Spectrum and the Invention of the Upmarket Book
 • Sean deLone
There is No Perfect Book Title
The greatest gift an editor can receive is a book that already has a perfect title.
 • Sean deLone
How Novelists Fight Dictators
The question on my mind this week is how writers can possibly write in such dark days.
 • Sean deLone

October 2025

Specialty Bookstores are the Future of Publishing
Get Bigger by Going Smaller
 • Sean deLone
Book vs. Movie: Haunted Edition
Which is better, the movie or the book?
 • Sean deLone
Taylor Swift (Finally) Needs an Editor
Interesting Imperfection vs. Fatal Flaw
 • Sean deLone

September 2025

Modern Classic: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Book That Started a Corporate Maleficence Renaissance
 • Sean deLone
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