It's Time for Publishers to Tell the Truth About Posthumously Published Books

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about publishers misrepresenting posthumous books, Jeff's Q&A with Authors Equity CEO Madeline McIntosh, RuPaul's Allstora backtracking, and much more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Want to make your book club the best club? Sign up for our In the Club newsletter. In the Club will deliver recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed. Sign up today! Discussed in this episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Follow-up: Madeline McIntosh Q & A about Authors Equity RuPaul and Allstora backtrack on selling anti-LGBTQ titles Legislators in Delaware and Connecticut propose anti-book ban measures It's Time for Publishers to Tell the Truth About Posthumously Published Books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	This is the Book Right Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky. And today we are talking about more discussions about how publishing should be put together. Who should get the money and why?
0:43.8	We're talking about RuPaul and Alstora,
0:46.7	maybe saying take backsies on selling some of the titles.
0:50.8	They were interested.
0:51.8	I'm going to put Rebecca on the spot to talk about why
0:54.0	publishers should treat us like grown-ups and tell us about the books. That we're reading, some
0:59.4	adaptation news, award news, Rebecca, you were out last week. You didn't get to hear, or you didn't get to be here for the first wave of discussing about authors equity. Danick and I did a very good job of that. I think did it. I'm sure you
1:14.0	me. In the meantime, Madeline McIntosh did agree to answer a few of my questions for
1:20.7	today in books. I'll put the links in the show notes there. You and I have both
1:23.8	read the answers. Those are unedited, done by email, caveat, caveat, we're going to talk about that a little bit,
1:31.2	maybe do some talk about it's coming up on the Patreon.
1:34.0	But before we do any of that, we're going to do a sponsor right now.
1:39.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books, publisher of the Cautious Traveler's Guide to
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1:49.4	So this one is really interesting.
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