SleuthFest Recap 8 – From Midlist to A list

This will be my final recap from SleuthFest, and I hope you’ve enjoyed some of my posts. In this session, Kris Montee (half of the PJ Parrish writing team) threw questions at editor/publisher Neil Nyren of G.P Putnam’s Sons (a division of Penguin Random House) and author CJ Box.

The first question, obviously enough was “What is a mid list author?” and the answer was “it’s someone in between being a best seller and low seller.” Nyren addressed how they as publishers worked to make CJ Box the b...