How will your work editing anthologies and magazines and doing podcasts fit in with the imprint?Īll of my work in short fiction provides the foundation for my broad knowledge of the genre. That role is now handled by Jaime Levine, former editorial director of Warner Aspect (and former editor of one of the imprint's authors-Carrie Vaughn). Additionally, we have an in-house editorial liaison for the imprint (necessary since I work remotely). I report directly to Bruce Nichols, the publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's trade division, so he and I work closely together deciding on advances and publishing strategies for each title. We're doing just 7-10 books a year, so I'm the only acquiring editor for the imprint. Who will be working with you on the imprint? John Joseph Adams Books is a general science fiction and fantasy imprint dedicated to publishing bestselling and award-winning science fiction and fantasy from a diverse range of voices, both new and established-and we aim to bring readers fiction that is literary and accessible, sometimes experimental, and always full of a sense of wonder. Here he graciously and thoughtfully answers questions from Shelf Awareness. In addition, he is editor and publisher of the magazines Nightmare and the Hugo Award-winning Lightspeed and is a producer for WIRED's The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. He is also the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including The Living Dead and Wastelands. John Joseph Adams is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that is publishing six titles this year (more on those in the following article).

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