Grammar Girl here. I'm in Yon Fogarty, and today I'm here with Jane Friedman, one of today's

leading experts on the publishing industry. Through her website, social media, courses,

newsletters, and books, she helps writers understand the business of writing and building a successful

writing life.

Jane Friedman, welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast. Thanks so much. Pleasure to be here.

Yeah. So you have the new, the second edition of your fabulous book, the business of being a writer.

I finished this yesterday. I already have heartily recommended it to a friend who is heading off to get

an MFA in the fall. And I'm going to be recommending this to a lot of people. I wish I had had it

when I was just starting out. It's so great. Good job. And it's not, it's not common for a book to get

a second edition. So, you know, what is it about publishing that has changed that made this second edition

necessary?

Well, I have to say when I wrote the first edition, I didn't really future-proof it.

Part of the blame lies squarely on my shoulders.

You know, the book goes a lot into platform building, which is how authors build up visibility to their readers.

And so there was quite a bit of discussion of social media in there.

I also had significant sections devoted to explaining the magazine publishing industry,

online publishing, and digital publishing.

And when I sat down to write that first edition, I want to say it was around 2016 or so.

And now 2025, it is a very different landscape for magazines.

And I'm not going to say magazine publishing is dead. However, I do have to wonder what it means to even say the magazine industry at

this point, because it's just not recognizable, at least not compared to when I first got

into the industry. So those were some of the areas

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