@stephopitz.bsky.social
Hypewoman. Also, Director of Bookstore Partnerships for Bookshop.org
{whispers: is this how you use bluesky?}
31.03.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This makes sense to me and eliminates the annoying (for authors, particularly debut) practice of seeking blurbs.
31.03.2025 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It'd function as an endorsement in the same way a movie staring X actor lends credibility to X director's debut.
If you loved other books edited by a certain editor, it should be easier to find other books they've edited. If it's a new author, but their agent is your favorite author's agent: ditto.
Doing a sort of movie credits sort of approach to books, i.e. a page that lists the editor, publicist, agent, etc. Not in the acknowledgments but as a part of the copyright page or something.
31.03.2025 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So, if you want to cut out blurbs, do it. But, how about bringing in the other credentials that might boost a readers interest in a title?
31.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0But that highlights an immediate difference in these industries that has always nagged at me. That he'd say director, not writer, in this example. It's already acknowledging that film is better at showcasing the many people it takes to put together a project.
31.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sean Manning, says it like, yeah, you wouldn't ask another director to recommend your movie.
31.03.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I kinda like blurbs. But I get they're cumbersome and don't really do much needle-moving for a general reader. So S&S's decision to no longer require them seems fine....
www.thecut.com/article/simo...
(aside: I was reading my 5 year-old Charlotte's Web last night and did you know Eudora Welty BLURBED Charlotte's Web!?!?!?)
31.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So now I'm here to weigh in on the blurb discourse because absolutely no one has been asking what I think
31.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ever since I stopped using Twitter, I keep forgetting there's a platform to share my unsolicited thoughts.
31.03.2025 16:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ILYSM 😘
06.03.2025 16:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Titles like @kristenarnett.bsky.social's STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE, THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS by Ocean Vuong, ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad, THE SLIP by Lucas Schafer....
Now you know what I'm reading this spring. What about you?
Between now and Monday (3/10) @bookshop-org.bsky.social has some amazing spring titles on sale for 20%
Some titles are already out, some are pre-order, all are key ingredients in your 2025 reading plan
bookshop.org/lists/most-a...
National Book Awards tonight, baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTo3...
Ok bluesky time to wow me
20.11.2023 21:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
