Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we’re making it art.

Washington, DC
Joined September 2008
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    6 hours ago

    This week's "Glow" is on the value of a good nemesis, or: GIFT FROM THE NEME-SEA

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Sometimes, when I want to ingest a speedball of pure happiness, I go back to this ancient thread. The validation from my space heroes: 😭 The fact that only one person out of kabillions felt the need to point out that I misspelled “ma’am”: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

    For Today’s Happy, and for you SpaceFans, ... something a little different: enjoy this thread. It’s a good story. Made me smile. Go here also to find how you can share the same info with your neighbors: Form a WatchParty to spot the
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  3. May 14

    :whispers: see you in the coterie

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  4. May 14

    The very rich are already doing all of this. Public illegibility is an enormous power; that’s one of many reasons why it might feel uncomfortable and make others react with discomfort, even anger. Too bad for them.

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  5. May 14

    Re-normalize the private sphere. Normalize personal illegibility. Normalize doing what you can without bothering to perform it for anyone, assuming performance isn’t necessary for whatever you’re trying to achieve. Normalize refusing to disseminate evil by engaging with it online

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    May 13

    So proud of residency finalist Her book in progress is an astonishing work of memoir that does the hard work of excavating her family's story with honesty, curiosity, self-awareness and love. Coming from in 2023 cc:

    🌟The 2022 Next Book Residents are Kay Ulanday Barrett and Felicia Zamora !! We are so excited to support them and their incredible projects.🌟
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    May 12

    I've spoken to brilliant women at the apex of their fields who politely declined to comment for stories bc they felt they weren't the most qualified expert to weigh in on the precise topic I called about, and meanwhile all these men on here telling us how easy it is to breastfeed

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  8. May 11

    This speaks to what I think is so destructive about the "growth must be exponential! It can't just bring a comfortable living to a single developer" Silicon Valley mindset - it leaves niche industries like ours trapped with Soviet misery infrastructure

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  9. May 11

    Of course, there's also the tax paperwork problem. Whoever at any given publisher or agency is unlucky enough to be responsible for coordinating Form 6166 submissions to the IRS can feel me on this -- not sure if it's realistic to hope we can reform US Residency Certification tho

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  10. May 11

    Absolutely nothing in NPD - from lost password requests to subscription renewals to mandatory 2-factor authentication - is intuitive or single-step. And that's just one example of many like this; I can't think of a single piece of publishing-focused workplace software that's easy

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  11. May 11

    Take, for instance, NPD Bookscan, an essential and wildly user-unfriendly service w/ zero competition for what it provides and therefore zero incentive to fix its many, many problems. Costs mid-4 figures for 2 logins. OH AND PRINT TALLIES IN THERE ARE ONLY APPROXIMATE ANYWAY.

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  12. May 11

    You know the conversation we were all having the other month about publishing assistants' invisible digital maintenance workload? Something I'm just realizing we didn't talk about at the time is how much less awful it would be if any of our apps were actually good. (1/)

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  13. May 11

    Love 2 see one client () recommending another ()

    So if you need a pallet cleanser tonight, here’s my reading list, courtesy of . (And shout-out to former Haymarket resident Harold Claros-Maldonado for the “Heavy Tales” story about founder Jonny Z. Knocked that out in a day.)
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  14. May 10

    I was just………trying to answer his question…………about what the word “grooming” meant

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  15. May 10

    One minute we were discussing why the funny kids’ graphic novel he was reading about consent needed to exist, and the next………………………zoning laws about residential roller coaster construction and chimpanzee ownership

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  16. May 10

    I’m not sure where I thought an organic conversation about sex, consent, and boundaries with my eight-year-old would end up, but “two nights and counting of relentless inquiry into the granular administrative particulars of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch” was not it.

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  17. May 10

    Sign #1 you’re a geriatric millennial is if you can map every single specific variety of melancholy you have felt in your adult life onto the corresponding album.

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  18. May 10

    . / PublishersMarketplace could easily do this AND use data they’re already getting to populate up-to-date lists of current editors at each imprint w/links to recent acquisitions. Please - would be incredible & democratizing for younger and marginalized agents

    . 🕯 🕯 website that answers 🕯 "can I submit a book to 🕯[publishing imprint] and [sibling imprint]" 🕯 🕯 and auto updates when publishers 🕯 🕯 launch, merge, or rename🕯 🕯
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    May 10

    ICYMI, lots of new stuff in my shop! Two of the tektite necklaces have already sold.

    Several new items in my shop today! First up, these necklaces with tektite (impact glass) pendants, using agate beads to evoke the heat of atmospheric entry and impact:
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    May 9

    You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.

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