I'm a young Fugherty and I'm here today with Elizabeth Dissigard, who is an executive

editor at St. Martin's Press.

And we're going to talk about fiction and nonfiction and the thing I'm most excited to talk

about is translation.

But so welcome, Elizabeth.

Thank you for being here with me today.

Thank you.

Nice to be here.

Nice to meet you too.

I know it's wonderful to get to do these in person.

So first, why don't you start by telling the listeners sort of what type of editor are

you and what do you do?

What does an editor like you do on a typical day?

I know there's a lot of variety, but what's a typical day for you?

Well, I'm the kind of editor as are most of the editors at St. Martin's and at McMillan

who, you know, there's kind of two parts to my job.

One is always looking for new books to acquire, new authors, and bringing those in-house.

And then the other part is once we, you know, have someone signed up, working the whole

process from idea or manuscript to publish books and what happens after that.

So every day is kind of figuring out how you somehow make time for both those things

or many versions of that.

And any day revolves around a book.

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