Hachette Book Group

So our publisher is Little Brown.

Little Brown is an imprint under Hachette, the top five global publisher.

Hachette's a French publisher.

And if we've never- Did they

contact you? Or do you have a literary agent? I had a

Yeah, I mean, Michael, you know, so when Yard of Feeling came out, Michael was the head of Littlebrown.

Sometime thereafter, he became the CEO of all of Hachette, North America.

So when he started working on The Brightest with me, he was actually like the CEO of the entire company and probably wasn't doing much business.

editing at all um and then yeah and then later in the process left that job but stayed on stayed on as my as my editor for which i'm very grateful

So that book's called Q3 and it's about the third quarter of life, but it's about mythology and storytelling and well-known myths and stories that help us to illuminate and understand the third quarter of life.

Now, I'm doing that with a publisher I've worked with before, Little Brown Spark, part of Hachette, one of the biggest publishers around.

But, you know, the thing I'm always asking myself these days is, do I really want to go back to a publisher? I mean, the nice thing about a publisher is they'll pay you in advance.

Now, first of all, I'm a published author.

And this new group of people are able to read and write and they've got some disposable income and they want to be entertained.

And now all we get pretty much in the middle of the 1800s publishing houses like Macmillan, if we're talking about Britain, or Hachette, if we're talking about France, and so on and so forth.

Some of these big names, like Random House, for example, have been around for, look, 150 or more years.

And they do very well.

It took me over a month to prepare the material so she could pitch it to various publishers, which she did.

Long story short, I got a very nice contract from the running press division of Hachette, and I was off and going with this project.

What a story.

Anyone who's interested in the food industry or the biography, it's a really great book to read.

I'd spent close to a year working on the Spider-Man exhibition with Spider-Man as my full-time job.

And right as that was winding up, somebody at Marvel and Disney kindly recommended me to the editor at Black Dog and Leventhal in Hachette, who they had just secured the license with Marvel to do a reference book like this modeled on there all of the songs and all the films volumes, you know, the Prince, all the songs and Taylor Swift, all the songs and Bob Dylan, all the songs, Stanley Kubrick, all the films like these big, beautiful books that they put out.

And I was miraculously offered the opportunity to do something similar with comics and specifically with Spider-Man.

And so I I jumped at the chance and almost immediately realized that no matter how big a job I thought it was going to be, it was going to be even bigger.

I think it's fantastically exhaustive, as you said.

dive into a care into a into a character's history and the many different creative influences that have guided its his his journey so to speak the last 60 plus years Patrick Reed thank you so much for being here man is there a place people can go to find more of your you know your thoughts and your your work in general

I am DJ Patrick A. Reid on most social media, or if you search for Spider-Man Total Universe, there is an author page for me on Hachette's website.

You can look for the Marvel The Exhibition, which I curated and is... about to, has just been announced, is going to be holding its next engagement.

but I'm even more jealous that she got to interview Miss Piggy.

She's the co-host of 831, the romance podcast, and her debut novel, People Like You, is due out next spring from Hachette.

Please welcome to the pod universe, Tyler McCall.

Hello, Tyler.

Welcome.

Is it Hachette?

It's Little Brown, which is an imprint of Hachette.

Publishing is a fascinating world.