Before our first three books launched in April, we knew we would need to publicize our new company and our amazing titles. What we didn’t know was that this would involve doing A LOT of interviews for podcasts and radio shows! Who knew there were so many great podcasts out there for readers, history buffs, and just anyone and everyone curious about books and the people who make them? We’re having so much fun getting to know this new-to-us world and are so grateful to their lit-loving hosts for inviting us to have such great conversations about the thing we love to talk about most! Dear Reader, if you’d like to set your current read down for a few moments and have a listen, we’d love to share a few highlights from our recent appearances with links to the audio:
In February, (not quite) literally minutes after we started working with book publicist Lissa Warren, we were invited onto Writer’s Voice. Host Francesca Rheannon asked us to be part of an episode featuring Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel about one of the most influential women in literary history, Jesse Redmon Fauset. In addition to editing the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine and being credited with discovering, mentoring, and publishing Langston Hughes and other literary giants of the Harlem Renaissance, Fauset was the author of four novels, including one of our first Quite Literally Books titles, Plum Bun. Listen here (our interview starts at 34:19).
As its name suggests, The Writer’s Story is a podcast where authors and hosts Meredith Cole and Kristin Swenson interview other authors. We were delighted that they made an exception for two voracious readers and newly minted book publishers (that’s us!). On the day of our book launch, we shared our origin story, talked about the challenges of publishing books written in the last century, and questioned why there are “women’s books.” Listen here.
Susan Lang, host of A Novel Idea, welcomed us to her show where we discussed topics like how we choose our titles, the amateur sleuthing skills we’ve developed in order to obtain publishing rights, and more. Listen here (our interview starts at 35:05)
The Remedial Herstory Project was really fun for us – we nerded out about incorrect word use, talked about our goal to bring back wonderful books that were successful in their time and that we think today’s readers will love, and answer questions about how we decide what books to reprint. Listen here.
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