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<\/a><\/p>\nI could provide a list of the authors he\u2019s worked with over the years, but it would make for a shorter list if I told you who he hasn\u2019t worked with.<\/p>\n
We discussed his first Eastercon 53 years ago, his “obsessive” love for J. R. R. Tolkien, the best commercial deal he ever did, how to dispassionately judge the writing of people you already know, his editorial encounter with Michael Caine, the bidding war over George R. R. Martin’s \u00a0A Game of Thrones<\/em>, how he learned to write editorial revision letters writers would understand, the ways in which working with authors of science fiction is different than in the wider world of publishing, when it’s time for an author to reinvent themselves under a pseudonym, splitting one’s time between the business and artistic sides of publishing, what he means when he says getting published “is the jam on the bread, it’s not the bread,” the sorts of submissions he’s seeing too much and too little of at his agency, plus much more.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how you can join us at Brightsmith on the Water<\/a> — <\/p>\n 1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 282 previous episodes.<\/p>\n 2) Listen via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n 3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n