Tom Mayer

It's like the thing that was in your mind, this thing that was just an idea in an author's head goes from this like document on your computer to piles of paper that you've been scribbling on to hours long phone calls with the author about arguing over this paragraph or whatever.

And then all of a sudden there's an actual book in your hand and it just feels magical.

You want to wield the ceremonial blue scissors?

Yes, yes I do.

But we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

How do you get someone who's being pitched hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of new titles every week to say this book and not that one?