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GUEST POST: Editors: A Crazy, Stupid, Love Story

Over the course of writing twenty books, I’ve had five editors. They have had me.

Three of them were so spectacularly brilliant that the thought of them still brings tears to my eyes. Two of them were so spectacularly awful that the thought of them still brings tears to my eyes.

A writer’s relationship with an editor is often compared to a marriage, because it is so intimate. Now, I’ve been married twice, and once widowed. Trust me: the relationship with my editors is more intimate by far.

Your editor is the only person on earth whom you invite in to crawl around inside your brain and spirit.

Your editor’s comments can lift you off the ground to soar among the clouds, or lift you off an overpass to dive straight down to the asphalt.

Book Review: What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling and leaping off tall buildings—Allie and Rob have no choice but to join her, if only to protect her. Though potentially deadly, Parkour after dark makes Allie feel truly alive, and for the first time equal to the “daytimers.”

On a random summer night, the trio catches a glimpse of what appears to be murder. Allie alone takes it upon herself to investigate, and the truth comes at an unthinkable price. Navigating the shadowy world of specialized XP care, extreme sports, and forbidden love, Allie ultimately uncovers a secret that upends everything she believes about the people she trusts the most. (From Goodreads.)

Meet Soho Teen!

There is a new imprint being introduced to the world today and it is called Soho Teen. An imprint of Soho Press, known for its literary and international crime fiction, Soho Teen will be handled in much the same way. Kicking off with their debut title What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which is being released today, there is already no doubt that this imprint will bring great things to the world of publishing. Their exact description from the Soho Press website is:

"Soho Teen, coming in 2013, publishes a select list of YA mysteries and thrillers by international bestsellers, award winners, and debut novelists with stellar credits. Born of the conviction that compelling YA of any genre involves thrill and mystery, Soho Teen’s titles include the paranormal and dystopian, the humorous and realistic, the tragic and uplifting—whatever serves a great story best. Soho Teen’s small list is unique in that every title has a high-stakes, page-turning puzzle at its heart."

Their other titles, to release once a month through June, include Who Done It? (a collection of 83 famous YA authors, including Libba Bray, David Levithan, John Green, Lemony Snicket, Lauren Myracle), Escape Theory by Margaux Froley, Strangelets by Michelle Gagnon, The Sweet Dead Life by Joy Preble, and Deviant by Helen FitzGerald. 

There will be reviews coming of the first three titles, the first to show right here on January 11th. 

Until then, please enjoy this interview with Soho Teen's editorial director Daniel Ehrenhaft!