Podcasts by What Editors Want
What Editors Want is a new podcast in which I interview a different editor each week from the world of publishing. It’s aimed at readers who want to hear the behind the scenes story of how their favourite books get made, and aspiring authors who want to know how to get published.
I’ve spoken to everyone from the biggest names in the industry to independent publishers taking a dynamic and innovative approach to making books. Along the way I’ve met the editors behind Nobel and Booker Prize winning authors (and practically every other literary prize), ground-breaking non-fiction (from The Panama Papers to Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race), with everything from kid’s books to cookbooks in between.
My dream is that this podcast will make the world of books more approachable and inclusive for the authors and publishing professionals of tomorrow by hearing about the career paths of industry leading editors, and how they choose their books.
Philip Connor Finn is an editor at award-winning publisher Unbound. He is the winner of the Faber & Faber Scholarship to UCL and the Cuirt Festival’s New Writing Prize. He writes for publications including Boundless, Caught by the River and The Times Literary Supplement.
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson - Jenny Lord from 2021-06-10T05:00:11
Jenny Lord is the Publisher at Weidenfeld and Nicolson, part of Orion who were recently crowned Publisher of the Year.
We discuss the role of a Publisher at a publishing house, and Jen...
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A Short Update... from 2019-10-22T04:00:13
Thank you to everyone who listened to Season 1, here's a short update on what's happened with the show.
Apologies to anyone waiting for the episode featuring Jenny Lord. Jenny and I re...
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Fitzcarraldo Editions - Jacques Testard from 2019-10-15T03:57:59
Founded in only 2014, Fitzcarraldo Editions specialising in contemporary fiction and long-form essays. In only five years they have won the International Booker Prize for Olga Tokarczuk'...
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Daunt Books - Željka Marošević from 2019-10-08T04:00:47
Daunt Books is London's famous chain of bookstores, and Željka Marošević is the Publisher at their imprint.
We met to discuss the relationship between the bookstore and the publisher, ...
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Piece of Paper Press - Tony White from 2019-10-01T03:55:16
This week's guest is Tony White, founder and publisher of Piece of Paper Press, a lo-tech, sustainable publisher of new writings and illustrative works. Each book is manufacture...
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Serpent's Tail - Hannah Westland from 2019-09-24T04:00:01
Hannah Westland is the publisher at Serpent's Tail, the literary arm of Profile Books. Serpent's Tail launching the careers of writers such as David Peace, Michel Houellebecq and Colm Tóibín and...
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Atlantic Books - James Roxburgh from 2019-09-17T04:00:02
My guest this week is the Senior Editor at Atlantic Books, James Roxburgh.
We're discussing book fairs, the different types of reading and the perceived death of lite...
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OneWorld - Alex Christofi from 2019-09-10T04:00:20
Alex Christofi is the first guest on the podcast who is both an editor and author. Alex has written two novels, Let Us Be True and Glass, which won the 2016 Bet...
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Bloomsbury - Alexa Von Hirschberg from 2019-09-03T04:00:14
Alexa Von Hirschberg is the editorial director at Bloomsbury. She told me about how starting a jazz night got her her first job in publishing at Canongate, working with legends like Kate...
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John Murray Press - Mark Richards from 2019-08-27T04:00:01
This week's guest is Mark Richards, Publisher at John Murray Press. John Murray are over 250 years old, the longest running independent trade publisher in the UK. They published...
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Quadrille - Susannah Otter from 2019-08-20T04:00:20
Susanna Otter is a Commissioning Editor at Quadrille, one of the leading non-fiction publishers in the UK who specialise in areas like food & drink, craft, lifestyle, design...
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Influx Press - Kit Caless from 2019-08-13T04:00:07
Kit Caless is the co-founder of Influx Press, the Hackney based publisher making books from London anthologies all the way to poetry from The Western Sahara. We met to discuss starting a press f...
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Hodder Fiction & Sceptre - Emma Herdman from 2019-08-06T04:00:49
Emma Herdman is the Editorial Director at both Hodder Fiction and their literary imprint, Sceptre. Hodder publish some of the biggest names in the business like Stephen King, Jasper Fforde, Grah...
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Granta - Anne Meadows from 2019-07-30T04:47:51
Lovers of literary fiction will know Granta Magazine and Granta itself, the publishers of authors likes Robert MacFarlane, Eleanor Catton, Ben Lerner, AM Holmes, Patrick deWitt and Han Kang.
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Scott Pack from 2019-07-23T04:00:39
Scott (@meandmybigmouth) and I met in the run up to Christmas to discuss our mutual love of experimental fiction (although not, as you'll hear, the novels of Haruki Murakami). Scott explains why...
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Faber & Faber - Louisa Joyner from 2019-07-16T09:00:46
In the inaugural episode I visited Faber & Faber, the iconic publishers of authors like Sylvia Plath, William Golding, TS Eliot and Ted Hughes.
This week's guest is Louisa Joyner, ...
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