13: What It’s Like to Work in Publishing in Your 20’s With Hannah Braaten, St. Martin’s Press [Main T4C Episode]

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Hannah Braaten has read her way through the publishing industry all the way to the top where she works as Editor at St. Martin’s Press*. Hannah discovered her love for publishing at Wellesley College due to her experience with an incredible English professor. She’d always loved bookstores and in fact, worked in them during high school and college. After graduating in 2011, and gaining experience through a couple of internships at Bloomberg and The Paris Review, Hannah took the Columbia Publishing Course. This led her to land an entry-level job at St. Martin’s Press. Seven years later Hannah is an Editor, working with many different unique talents and writers, like one of the co-hosts of the new Queer Eye show, Tan France! Hannah graduated form Wellesley College with a B.A. in English and a minor in psychology. 

*Hannah left St. Martin’s Press in February 2020. She now is a Senior Editor at Gallery Books.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• What an editor at a top 5 publishing house actually does day-in-day-out (4:33)
• Why a good editor doesn’t make a good writer and vice-versa (8:28)
• What it takes to work your way up the chain from an entry-level position to become an Editor (14:58)
• Why you should consider taking the 6-week long Columbia Publishing Course if you’re really interested in breaking into publishing (16:35)
• What all the titles mean:  for example, an associate editor vs. assistant editor? (18:29)
• How to network when you’re an introvert and kind of shy (22:20)
• How to break into the publishing industry and what it’s really like on the inside (31:39)
• How the publishing industry is thriving and can be a great place to build your career (33:05)

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