Editor and publishing consultant. Recently of Penguin. Winner of Editor of the Year 2021. She/her. Insta @katyloftus https://nitter.gq/t.co/JjrEBiGTCz
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Sick of New Year’s resolutions? Come along to my latest substack and make a resolution to fail 🥳🎶🍾
open.substack.com/pub/fromth…
In today's Substack post I'm answering all the big questions... How to know when to quit your job, and finding success as an author. bit.ly/3N7jAc2 Any shares or restacks gratefully received.
I wrote something about status - what losing it has meant to me, and why. It's on Substack for free. bit.ly/40MdR14
I wrote a piece about what I found in the year after leaving corporate publishing. Spoiler: good stuff happened.
Powerful (and very accurate) piece from @katyloftus for @thebookseller today called 'Should you quit?' thebookseller.com/comment/sh… It discusses the psychological dangers of corporate publishing - including bullying & abusive behaviour and working very long hours.
Hi book folk! I have written a short story. It isn’t my story, but it is about issues I've seen in all industries, inc publishing. It’s on Substack, no subscription needed, so anyone can read it. I hope you find something in it to make you think & talk. open.substack.com/pub/fromth…
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Things women in literature have died from.
Going outside at night in Italy and general bummers are my personal favorites.
I'm hearing great things about this fast-growing indie children's publisher in Leicester, and they have tons of amazing jobs going! sweetcherrypublishing.com/co…
Sometimes instinct means listening to your gut. Sometimes it means recognising when someone else's gut is right.
Thank you, Lauren, for these words. One major difference now I work freelance is I get paid to read manuscripts. Whereas in-house assistants on the lowest pay are expected to read, sometimes every day, for free. Publishers should at least pay overtime, not incentivise over-work.
The thing that burns me up about the @hcpunion strike is that HC management is acting as if publishing is a standard business, when it’s a weird chimera, largely predicated on respect and goodwill—which @HarperCollins is irreparably damaging every day they refuse to bargain.
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simply unforgivable that elon is forcing me to either get hot (instagram), get annoying (substack), learn what a server is (mastodon), or become an actual psychopath (linkedin)
What I’ve learned this week: editors, like authors - like everyone - need real life in order to create. Whether that’s being on mountain top, or bustle of street. Working all the time shuts life out, and so can be the antithesis of creation. Let’s give real life space.
This is a wee snippet of what I’ve been up to the past week. I am not earning much right now so I’ve been working for my bed and board in an arboretum. Met some amazing people and learned about trees. One of the best holidays ever. instagram.com/reel/CkbTpG8MC…
#HotBook Watch out for this, coming early 2023. Sparsely written, sardonically funny, propulsive and beautiful. By one of the most uncompromisingly talented writers I have encountered. The first line tells it all…
Wrote the above when tired and forgot to say all the important stuff…it’s by the brilliant Hanna Jameson, pub’d by @harrietbourton at @VikingBooksUK 💕
I’m off to work (the manual labour kind, not editing) in a Scottish arboretum this week, so I’ll see you the other side!
I’m doing this talk at Futurebook on 18th Nov with these amazing women, all about publishing what you don’t know - as I did with Lizzie’s Yinka, Where is your Huzband? Come listen, it would be lovely to see you!
.@mollyflatt will be in conversation with @gkamsika, @Sophie_Deen, @katyloftus and @DamilolaLizzie, discussing how authors and editors can work together to cross divides in writing
#FutureBook22
ALT Graphic with headshots of the panel speakers. Text says: Writing what you don't know: How authors and editors can cross divides.
Loved this book. Marie is a game-changing character, and my role model forever more. @legroff is a gifted storyteller, there was so much beauty and truth in the pages.
Also, from a publishing perspective, a masterclass in blurb writing.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I lost out on acquiring this novel, and am still gutted - it is absolutely brilliant. Searingly clever and full of the kind of well-observed drama that makes you turn the pages frantically and think about it long after. Nikki May is a big new talent. Great cover @DoubledayUK !
I am OBSESSED with the UK paperback #Wahala cover.
Three friends. Three ‘perfect’ lives. Here comes trouble.
⚠️ ear-worm
Out Feb 2023.
Thank you @doubleday dream team
Burning out? These are the top 20 companies on Glassdoor for work-life balance. (None of them publishers, obvs.) I've been thinking a lot about job satisfaction lately & whether it has much to do with things like 'love' and 'passion'. Thoughts? bit.ly/3VSVIvA