Publishing Career Advice at the US Book Show

Check out As in guillotine... for more. I attended Publishers Weekly‘s US Book Show for the first time last week, cautiously optimistic about the main program, but at the last minute, I decided to attend the first day’s workshop and reception, too, because networking is important when you’re on the market, and I’m rusty as hell! Contrary to what most people who only know me online, I’m an ambivert who prefers shining the spotlight on others rather than being in it myself. I love connecting and promoting other people, but am terrible at small talk with strangers, and very rarely proactively introduce myself to people I don’t know. Even all the way back to my poetry days, I was always more comfortable producing and hosting events than being onstage reading my own work. So even though I wasn’t the target audience for the show’s “Navigating Publishing Careers Today: From Entry-Level to Advancement” workshop, I’m really glad I attended it. It wasn’t recorded on purpose to make…