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Episode 77 – An Acquiring Editor Answers Your Questions
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Rekka: 00:00:07 Welcome to the hybrid author, a podcast where we gather the raw material to Frankenstein into a writing career you can bring to life. I’m Rekka, writing science fiction is RJ Theodore. Each week, I’ll share information on the different aspects of writing, editing, publishing, and marketing to inspire you to finally pull that lever. This is the hybrid author podcast.
Rekka: 00:00:30 Hey, everybody Rekka’s back here. I’ve got a good one today.
Rekka: 00:00:34 This interview is with Kailyn Considine of Parvus Press. Yes, I am recycling my connections at Parvus Press again. But this is really exciting because Kaelyn is the acquiring editor at Parvus, which means that when somebody sends a submission in, Kaelyn is the first person that it comes into contact with. So query letters, manuscripts, um, inquiries, stuff like that. So I reached out–and some of you already know this because you responded–and collected some questions from the crowd, as it were, to ask Kaelyn while we spoke today. And I got so many great questions and unfortunately we did not get to all of them. So we focused a lot on query letters today. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I know a lot of folks who still don’t know exactly what needs to go into the query letter or how to make the perfect query letter and um, how critical is the query letter.
Rekka: 00:01:34 So Kaelyn and I get into that quite a bit and then we also talk about, um, more of the, uh, day to day or her practice as she goes through the submissions. And um, there really was so much at the end that we did have to just kind of cut it off because she had to go into the Parvus business meeting right after we recorded. So that’s also kind of exciting too. Um, yes, I am going to continue to bring Parvus People on because I really enjoy, uh, working with Parvus, and all their people are so easy and fun to talk to. So, um, one thing I will point out Kaelyn regretted after the fact that she didn’t get to mention that, um, if you go to the Parvus website and you look at the About Us page and the information about everything, they really are interested in putting the authors first.
Rekka: 00:02:26 So you’re going to see through this interview or you’re going to hear rather that Kaelyn is very passionate about making sure that the artist is treated like a human being as part of this process. And that at no point do Parvus, anyone at Parvus, forget that there was somebody put a lot of work into this book. So, um, that also means that this is not exactly going to be the process that you would find anywhere else. So that’s the caveat that Kaelyn wishes, um, that we put at the beginning of the episode because, uh, we do mention it partway through, but it’s already pretty deep into that conversation. And she said she wished she’d just said it at the top. That this is not going to be the answer that you’d get from the acquiring editor at Tor or a Simon and Schuster, um, the big five, or even some of the other small presses out there.
Kaelyn: 00:03:20 Um, one thing that Parvus did, Collin told me when we spoke early in the process of getting plots and published and negotiating that contract in our introductory phone calls was that Parvus is so small that they wanted to be able to say, um, “Yes, that’s the way that publishing has always done it and no, we’re not going to do it that way.” So in some respects, the process that Kaelyn describes is not always going to be the same as you find anywhere else. But Kaelyn is really good about being careful with her advice and not setting up...
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Rekka: 00:00:07 Welcome to the hybrid author, a podcast where we gather the raw material to Frankenstein into a writing career you can bring to life. I’m Rekka, writing science fiction is RJ Theodore. Each week, I’ll share information on the different aspects of writing, editing, publishing, and marketing to inspire you to finally pull that lever. This is the hybrid author podcast.
Rekka: 00:00:30 Hey, everybody Rekka’s back here. I’ve got a good one today.
Rekka: 00:00:34 This interview is with Kailyn Considine of Parvus Press. Yes, I am recycling my connections at Parvus Press again. But this is really exciting because Kaelyn is the acquiring editor at Parvus, which means that when somebody sends a submission in, Kaelyn is the first person that it comes into contact with. So query letters, manuscripts, um, inquiries, stuff like that. So I reached out–and some of you already know this because you responded–and collected some questions from the crowd, as it were, to ask Kaelyn while we spoke today. And I got so many great questions and unfortunately we did not get to all of them. So we focused a lot on query letters today. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I know a lot of folks who still don’t know exactly what needs to go into the query letter or how to make the perfect query letter and um, how critical is the query letter.
Rekka: 00:01:34 So Kaelyn and I get into that quite a bit and then we also talk about, um, more of the, uh, day to day or her practice as she goes through the submissions. And um, there really was so much at the end that we did have to just kind of cut it off because she had to go into the Parvus business meeting right after we recorded. So that’s also kind of exciting too. Um, yes, I am going to continue to bring Parvus People on because I really enjoy, uh, working with Parvus, and all their people are so easy and fun to talk to. So, um, one thing I will point out Kaelyn regretted after the fact that she didn’t get to mention that, um, if you go to the Parvus website and you look at the About Us page and the information about everything, they really are interested in putting the authors first.
Rekka: 00:02:26 So you’re going to see through this interview or you’re going to hear rather that Kaelyn is very passionate about making sure that the artist is treated like a human being as part of this process. And that at no point do Parvus, anyone at Parvus, forget that there was somebody put a lot of work into this book. So, um, that also means that this is not exactly going to be the process that you would find anywhere else. So that’s the caveat that Kaelyn wishes, um, that we put at the beginning of the episode because, uh, we do mention it partway through, but it’s already pretty deep into that conversation. And she said she wished she’d just said it at the top. That this is not going to be the answer that you’d get from the acquiring editor at Tor or a Simon and Schuster, um, the big five, or even some of the other small presses out there.
Kaelyn: 00:03:20 Um, one thing that Parvus did, Collin told me when we spoke early in the process of getting plots and published and negotiating that contract in our introductory phone calls was that Parvus is so small that they wanted to be able to say, um, “Yes, that’s the way that publishing has always done it and no, we’re not going to do it that way.” So in some respects, the process that Kaelyn describes is not always going to be the same as you find anywhere else. But Kaelyn is really good about being careful with her advice and not setting up...