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What a good editorial letter actually says

Most authors expect a verdict. What they need is a map. We asked nine editors to share the letters that changed a book — and the sentences that did the work.

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The quiet return of the mid-list novel

Independent imprints are re-acquiring the books that big houses stopped buying in 2019.

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