Publishing Industry Predictions: 2024

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

A new 'Craftwork' episode. A conversation with Kathleen Schmidt, an expert on the book business and the author of a Substack called Publishing Confidential. In this episode, Kathleen shares her publishing industry predictions for 2024. Kathleen Schmidt is a well-respected voice in book publishing with in-depth experience in all aspects of the industry, including as a publicist, literary agent, acquisitions editor, and ghostwriter. Her career encompasses 30 years of creating and directing impactful and strategic global media, marketing, and branding campaigns for politicians, A-List celebrities, athletes, and high-profile personalities. To date, she has worked on 50 New York Times bestsellers, and her clients have continuously appeared in top-tier national print, broadcast, and radio outlets such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Vogue, Elle, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Sirius XM. Schmidt is the founder of Kathleen Schmidt Public Relations. She lives in New Jersey. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:07.6	It is nice to be with you. Thanks for listening. Hope you're okay, wherever you happen to be.
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0:24.6	So today I will be sharing with you the very first craftwork episode of 2024. If you're new to
0:32.5	the program, craftwork episodes feature conversations about the craft of writing or the business of publishing.
0:40.3	In today's case, I will be talking with Kathleen Schmidt, a returning champion back here on the other people show to share with her predictions for the book business in 2024. Very excited to have Kathleen
0:58.2	Schmidt on the show once again. That conversation is coming up in just a bit. A quick
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2:05.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Tin House, publisher of the novel Nonfiction by Julie
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