Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Full-time and Freelance

LaunchThe biggest news this week is that my employer, Fig Tree Books LLC, has launched its imprint and announced its first four books, which will be published beginning in March 2015. Read the full press release on our wonderful website. And/or check out this generous coverage from Library Journal. (It’s never too late to celebrate! Lift a virtual glass as per the nifty image I had fun creating and am sharing here.)

Working for FTB means that I won’t be doing much of the freelance writing-about-books that I’ve done for such a long time. When I began working for FTB last month, I had just finished two such freelance assignments. One of them–a fall books preview article for The Jewish Journal–was published this week. I hope you’ll take a look. The other, a review-essay for The Missouri Review, will be in the forthcoming fall issue. I can give you a hint about it, though: If you found Meghan Daum’s essay in this week’s issue of The New Yorker interesting, you’ll find some similar food for thought in my TMR piece.

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins tonight. I’m not going to blog for the next couple of days. But rest assured, I’ll be back! In the meantime, here’s wishing a sweet and happy new year to everyone else who is celebrating.

4 thoughts on “Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Full-time and Freelance

  1. Thanks for the updates, Erika. Enjoy the holiday.

    1. Erika Dreifus says:

      Thanks, John!

  2. Shana Tova, Erika, and best of luck with Fig Tree. This is a very exciting development in the world of Jewish publishing. Please let me know when you plan to be in Israel. All best, Judy

    1. Erika Dreifus says:

      Judy, thank you! Shana tova to you and yours.

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