![]() ![]() ![]() Literary, commercial, fiction, non-fiction–ideally a wide variety. (That should be easy, right?) Doesn’t matter what kind of books. “Coming out of college, people tend to value being well-versed in the ‘classics,’ but that’s less useful than knowing what’s in the marketplace now. Like, go and find 50 books on the bestseller lists in the last year that sound cool to you. Needless to say Julian’s resume speaks for itself, but he did not get into his position easily and offered some advice for people just coming out of school. He has worked with Andy Weir ( The Martian), Ernie Cline ( Ready Player One, Armada), Robert Jackson Bennett ( City of Stairs), Scott Hawkins ( The Library at Mount Char), and Peter Clines ( The Fold). Julian Pavia is an senior editor at Crown, which is a division of Random House. How exactly do you become an editor and what what is like being one at a major publisher? Seldom is it an entry level position, and you have to pay your dues doing different things within the company in order to have a well tailored resume. Breaking into the publishing industry as an editor is very difficult. ![]()
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