Why I Quit My Job at Penguin
4 min readJan 3, 2022
I loved being an editor in traditional book publishing.
Being an editor at big publishing houses — like Simon & Schuster and Penguin, where I worked — requires a lot of different skills. You have to be willing to socialize constantly — to build relationships with literary agents, to curry favor with authors but also your colleagues — designers and marketers and publicists and the entire production department.