So typically speaking, who are the key people an author is likely to work with during this process and how much collaboration will take place between editorial, marketing, publicity, sales? What does that whole process look like? That's a good question.

It's definitely a really collaborative process.

In terms of if you are the author, your main person that you'll be in touch with is the editor or the publisher.

So that will be me or somebody on my editorial team.

You're often in touch as well with the publicist.

So those two roles are the most what we would call author facing roles.

Most books have a publicist assigned to them.

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