Cover Story: Susan Isaacs: The Insider Interview
The bestselling author talks candidly about changes in the industry, and how she thinks publishers and authors can better work together.
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But Times Books was looking to change that, recalls Isaacs: "They hired a fiction editor who really was enthusiastic about my book. She and the subsidiary rights editor said, 'Let's go to town!' They took it to the Book of the Month Club and said 'You really have to pay attention.'" Timing was good, it seemed, as BOMC was seeking a book to pair with their other selection, the fourth novel by the then-little-known John Irving, The World According to Garp. They chose Isaac's book, Compromising Positions, looking to package "a dark comedy and bright comedy."
"John Irving and I were made for each other," says Isaacs. "I have enormous fondness for him based on the fact that we came out at the same time."
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