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Kathleen, I just have to gush about how amazing your content is--and consistent!! You work so hard and we appreciate all the long hours you put into educating and enlightening us! Great stuff.

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My gosh thank you so much. It means a lot to me to read your words.

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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about release day sales for Britney compared to It Starts with Us (800,000)! Coho is such a major author and to the literary side of publishing (where I live), she’s either unknown or dismissed

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It’s crazy to dismiss CoHo because the revenue her books bring it make other acquisitions possible!

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Thank you so much for this! It's spot-on (I didn't need to tell you that) and helps me reinforce what I know, and that I actually do know things! FWIW, I was in-house for the last 10 years and never saw a list of big books coming from a distributor, but I didn't work for a Big 5.

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This is such a helpful post! Thanks so much for sharing!

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Such a wonderful, informative post!

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Thanks for sharing all this. And, wowzers! You have a lot on your plate!

I agree--The Morning Show is so good this season!

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I need to catch up on The Morning Show! I’m loving Jon Hamm in it.

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Publicists gonna publicize ;) Plugging my debut Substack about the time Jon Hamm caressed (yes, CARESSED) my shoulder ;)

https://larastarr.substack.com/p/welcome-to-its-kind-of-a-long-story

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