![]() ![]() I’m never like ‘Oh, God, Oh, God, I can’t open this now,” he shares.Īnxiety (and emails) is a theme that plays out in Charming As A Verb. In the romcom, Henri “Halti” Haltiwanger, the protagonist, obsessively checks his inbox and admissions portal to see if he’s been accepted into his dream school, Columbia University. “Alessandra can email me–whether or not it has an attachment, whether or not it’s just a blurb she’s forwarding me or it’s a manuscript that has so many notes I have to go through, I’m never afraid of her emails. Fortunately, the dynamic he has with publisher and editor Alessandra Balzer (Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins), is the opposite of anxiety-inducing. ![]() The said fear he experienced about four or five years ago was counterproductive, which is why, when he has a say so, he works with people whose contact do not fill him with dread. I very much understand that fear because I think maybe I had it with my first couple of agents.” “They’re like ‘Oh, I made too many typos, they’re gonna think less of me.’ ‘The book didn’t sell as well as expected, they’re disappointed in me.’ And they really have that fear. “I have friends who are also writers, they have that fear of their own editors and publishers,” he tells So Booking Cool. When asked for advice about what authors should look for in agents, editors, and publishers, award-winning and Charming As A Verb (Balzer + Bray, October 13, 2020) author Ben Philippe, encourages finding industry professionals whose emails they are unafraid to receive. ![]()
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