Great article in GOTHAM MAGAZINE on Amy Einhorn and her imprint at Penguin.
Einhorn has pinned much hope on the spring release of The Other Typist, a first novel by Rice University PhD student Suzanne Rindell about women who are typists for the New York City Police Department in the 1920s. “The opening line, ‘They said the typewriter would unsex,’ really grabbed me,” Einhorn admits. “Editors don’t have a lot of time to invest in reading a whole submission, so that first impression is vital. I once worked for an editor who chose whether to read a manuscript based solely on the first sentence.” (She says it was the first paragraph of The Help that caught her attention.)
