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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Times Books, which was then still owned by The New York Times, bought the manuscript, although at the time they did not seem like a particularly natural fit. According to Isaacs,"They hadn't published fiction before. They were known for boring books. They did books on Lithuanian saints—stuff like that."
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