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BEA 2013 recap

Posted on 4 June 2013 by Natalie Ramm

I’m about a hundred years behind everyone else in writing a recap of BEA 2013. I blame that on the fact that my computer is incredibly shitty and I didn’t take it to NYC with me. But anyway, let’s recap! … Continue reading →

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Ryan Gosling: Publishing memes

Posted on 8 February 2012 by Natalie Ramm

There is this fantastic Tumblr that posts memes of Ryan Gosling being hot and saying clever/sweet things that girls/boys in publishing want to hear. I wonder if he’d put the TOUCH in my Kindle. *scandalous*

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Breathing Lessons

Posted on 10 May 2011 by Natalie Ramm

Title: Breathing Lessons Author: Anne Tyler Publication: Knopf 1988 Rating: 4 stars Like I said in my last post (that I posted like 3 seconds ago), I read Breathing Lessons during my hiatus from work in all of ONE day. … Continue reading →

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Are books on their way out?

Posted on 29 April 2011 by Natalie Ramm

When I tell people that I work in publishing, they tend to say one of two things: Awesome! I have this friend who’s just a phenomenal writer!! Would you like take a look at his manuscript?! or Is that like … Continue reading →

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Publishing Course

Posted on 4 April 2011 by Natalie Ramm

Last week was super busy! At work, I had a PR conference and then I had to help my boss with her publishing course. At the PR conference I was convinced that I should change the way I view twitter … Continue reading →

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Two new Harvard books

Posted on 6 January 2011 by Natalie Ramm

Ok, I’ve decided that I’m going to do some promotional for HHP, so bear with me. I mean, I blog at work. I feel like I should at least give them some publicity on my ever-so-popular site. The first book, … Continue reading →

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Your Creative Brain

Posted on 24 November 2010 by Natalie Ramm

I just spent the last 20 minutes writing a long post about my meeting with Dr. Shelley Carson yesterday and about her awesome book (Your Creative Brain). You can tell this is not that post because the tags below make NO … Continue reading →

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Personality Test

Posted on 15 November 2010 by Natalie Ramm

So, someone called me out on my personality category today (you introvert, you!). It’s been a while since two of my college friends made me take a personality test. All three of us ended up being INFPs, which doesn’t surprise me one … Continue reading →

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Mass-market PB v. Trade-market PB

Posted on 20 October 2010 by Natalie Ramm

What I learned today: Mass-market paperbacks (PB) are like Romance-novel-style books and Trade-market paperbacks are like normal people books. When a book first comes out in paperback, it is almost always in trade-market form. Part of my job involves being … Continue reading →

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Self-googling

Posted on 13 October 2010 by Natalie Ramm

When I was about 18, I started hearing my friends talk about googling people. Especially, googling boys that asked them out on dates–just to be sure they had no record of being a serial killer or having committed some other … Continue reading →

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