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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Did you go back to the same publisher?
● After that first book my editor sensed that that place wasn't for her. She switched to another house and very generously said to me, 'Feel free to go elsewhere,' and I did. I went to Lippincott, which was assumed immediately by Harper & Row, which was eaten up by HarperCollins. But I stayed there for about 20 years with the same editor, Larry Ashmead, who was fabulous. Then I switched over to Scribner.
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