5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Next week, 5E will be talking to three guest experts about the gutting of book coverage in US media and how the publishing industry is adapting. And in June, we'll talk to three star literary agents. These are free Zooms—join us! Details in comments. Register here: www.5eeditors.com/5e-resources 140
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Join us for 2 free Zooms: The Role of Indie Presses in Today's Marketplace with Johnny Temple (Akashic), Masie Cochran (Tin House), Erika Goldman (Bellevue Literary Press), Fri Oct 24. Three Dynamic Authors on Creative Book Promotion with Mateo Askaripour, Marjan Kamali, Juliet Grames, Fri Nov 7. 130
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 08/08/2025“Independent publishers are canny, resilient actors, not fragile victims.” Sharing Elizabeth Kaye Cook’s illuminating update at @literaryhub.bsky.social on the fallout of the NEA grant retractions and how small presses are responding. (Anne)lithub.comOn the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant ChaosOn Friday, May 2nd, 2025, DOGE and the National Endowment for the Arts terminated $300,000 worth of grants for 51 publishers. The email, a copy and paste job, trickled into inboxes at odd hours. 5:… 030
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 29/07/2025In @janefriedman.com's The Bottom Line newsletter, @editorsangeeta.bsky.social interviews 3 university press publishers and 2 literary agents, Barbara Jones and @jenferrariadler.bsky.social, to explore university presses as a publication path for fiction writers. (Anne) mailchi.mp/janefriedman...mailchi.mp[The Bottom Line] University presses that publish literary fiction 140
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 05/04/20255E recently joined the @histnovsoc.bsky.social (NY Chapter) for a panel on writing historical fiction. Here's our write-up of Part 1, offering tips for writers working on a book that takes years to complete. Part 2 will cover balancing research & great storytelling, and trends in historical fiction.5eeditors.com5E’s Roundtable at the Historical Novel Society — 5EBy Leslie Wells and Anne Horowitz Great historical fiction is transportive, making distant times and places feel real and immediate. It invites us to emotionally invest in characters whose lives are... 052
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I can’t wait to read Carrie Courogen’s MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST (NBCC finalist). Mike Nichols and Elaine May were mind-blowing, brilliant in improv, sketch comedy, and directing. In their Broadway run, after their sketches, they ended each night with spontaneous improv. (Judy) 041
Reposted by 5E EditorsDiane Mehta @dianemehta.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Anticipating the release of my book Happier Far next week, I wrote this piece about my mother’s letters home, and her reading, when she was in her twenties and on her first European tour. Link at JBC or my website for my book! xojewishbookcouncil.orgLetters from My MotherWith one thousand dollars in her pocket, my mother went on a European tour in June 1957, when she was twenty-three years old. She took a ferry to England and caroused across several continents. 171
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A big change for my favorite indie press but I think a positive one, as it will keep @tinhouse.bsky.social's great backlist in print&secure their future, under longtime editorial director Masie Cochran. Having copyedited more than 70 (!) Tin House books since 2011, I have a long list of favorites...publishersweekly.comZando Acquires Tin HouseThe respected literary press, founded in 2002, will become an imprint of the expanding independent publisher Zando, which was launched by former Crown publisher Molly Stern in 2020. 130
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Historical fiction authors & agents: Join 5E editors Judy Sternlight, Jane Rosenman, & Leslie Wells for a free Zoom with the Historical Novel Society March 25, 4–5:30 pm ET. We’ll discuss common challenges, the research process, & trends in historical fiction. Q&A to follow. Register: www.hnsnyc.org 071