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As I continued to write it, I found myself interweaving memories of Augie because experience became this sort of juxtaposition between the past and the present.

And then as I worked with my agent to shape it and to pitch it to various publishers, I was very fortunate that my editor, Anna, at Sourcebooks, she saw the line of the story as a path to renewal.

I didn't quite see that line.

And, you know, when an editor like Anna Michaels sees that through line in your work, you know, a great editor is terrific.

absolutely.

Absolutely.

I'm very fortunate to have a terrific agent and terrific editor who helped me get to a publisher like Sourcebooks that embraced a book like this.

It's an unusual book.

Welcome.

Jennifer and I are excited to share that today our guest is Almeida Beynon, the Director of Audio Production for Sourcebooks.

Almeida, welcome.

Hi, so excited to be here.

Right, 'cause we know people who have gotten deals around the same time for 2027, so the 2028 publishing calendar still has, like, a lot of spots left in it, it seems.

Yeah, I, I have not seen any other Sourcebooks authors in there yet, but that doesn't mean that they're not out there.

So yeah, it's just been kind of, kind of fun and different and, like, I'm learning a lot because I had no idea what was happening on this side of the agent.

Yeah, I feel like this is, you know, this is just a new stage of publishing and at, like, every stage there is all this new stuff to learn about.

But there was this huge demand for books.

So Sourcebooks stepped into that space and published all of this stuff.

So if it's William Darcy, Rockstar was one of the big ones.

I think I already said Abigail Reynolds.

smash that pre-order button.

I think Sourcebooks is even running a deal.

It's like... 8.99 paperback right now that's a hell of a deal come on

totally affordable totally

So what kind of tipped the scales for you?

well there's lots of things so obviously Cosmo Reads is an imprint of Sourcebooks and Sourcebooks is an independent publishing house they are also woman owned and like I just like love that they're also really new and fresh and I just love Sourcebooks I realized like when I was like coming towards like sending my book back to the agent and stuff when I would go to the bookstore I never really did this before but I started looking at like who was publishing what because in Normally I'm just looking at the cover, but then I was like looking at the spine to see who is publishing these books.

I have, I don't even, I do know big publishers and I do know imprints, but I didn't actually know like what book was attached to what publishing house necessarily.

So I was looking and every single time I saw a cover that I thought was like stunning, it would be a source books book or an imprint of source books.

So then when I was told that they, that source books wanted to publish my book, I was like- I'd already decided.

As soon as he told me that, I was like, we can wait and see if anyone else was interested, but I've already decided I'm going with

Sourcebooks.

And then I spoke on Zoom with the editor and stuff after they'd made an offering on my book.