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WATCH: How Book Reviews Really Work

Curious about how books are selected for review, how long in advance they're chosen and how you might write them yourself? Lee Gutkind sat down with Booklist EIC, Donna Seaman, to demystify it all.

There’s so much to know about book publishing and the world surrounding it, that it can feel hard to have a firm understanding of it all. Take book reviews, for instance. Have you ever wondered why some books get reviewed and others don’t, how libraries know which books to stock their shelves with, how to break into reviewing yourself and what the process really looks like? Us too.

Which is why, for our latest Open Book chat, Creative Nonfiction founder Lee Gutkind had Booklist editor-in-chief, Donna Seaman, on to answer these questions and more. Click play above to watch a recording of the whole conversation. (Not a paid subscriber yet? Consider becoming one to watch this full recording along with our entire archive of Open Book video conversations, get 20% off writing classes, and much more!)

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