Ask me anything: a Q & A open thread for premium subscribers

Publishing, books, life, celebrity gossip: ask me and each other whatever you'd like.

Yoohoo! I’m underwater on work time this week (see photo evidence below) and have therefore decided it’s time to do something I haven’t in a year: an open Q & A / chat for paid subscribers.

In the comments, please feel free to:

• Introduce yourselves!

• Ask me questions about publishing or anything your heart desires!

• Ask the rest of the commentariat those questions!

• Answer other people’s questions!

• Commiserate on the difficulties of creative work and life!

• Post your lamest jokes!

Over the next few days, I’ll be in and out of the post as I’m able, chiming in and answering whatever I can in as juicy a manner as circumstances allow.

Please do not use this chat to:

• Pitch me or anyone at Neon. That’s what our submissions procedure is for.

• “Ask a question” that is clearly just a pitch in disguise.

• Be a dick.

• Ask other commenters for specific professional favors. This is an exercise in mutual aid and group solidarity, not individual networking. (If someone violates this rule with you over email, please narc to me.)

• Shit talk or gossip about specific writers or publishing professionals. Celebrities, companies, foreign royalty, and anonymous, unidentifiable friends who don’t even go here are all okay.

I will delete all comments that violate the rules above and reserve the right to delete any others at my sole discretion.

Happy chatting! A x

Current scene: working between appointments on the crusty laptop that lives in my car, trapped by circumstance in my school run clothes for the rest of the day, after a morning rich in surprise indoor terrier feces