The universe is big. And full of tiny fascinations.

Get your own profound realizations (and lessons in scale) here.

Thanks, Mr. Sendak

for all the books, but especially for Little Bear, whose stories and pictures I pored over and over and over, until I learned how to read.

INSURGENT: An Editorial Love Story



From this....
(that's about one-third of the rounds of editorial & production passes of INSURGENT, FYI.)


Sometimes, less is more. So this post will be short, but deeply-felt (yep, my faction would be Candor).

It is an incredible thing to watch a book take wings and find resonance with so many readers, as DIVERGENT has done.

It is an incredible thing to watch readers waiting with such enthusiasm for a book, and to know what awaits them (being an editor has its perks!), and to be so, so excited for the moment when readers and the story get to connect again.

And it is an incredible thing when an author outdoes herself and creates a sequel like INSURGENT, one that is even more compelling, even more powerfully written, than its predecessor.

Veronica Roth, you continue to amaze us all with this story. Thank you so much for creating it. Today (and every day), I am a lucky editor, and we are all lucky readers

...TO THIS!

Happy reading, friends!