Recently-hired Simon & Schuster senior editor Yahdon Israel addressed prospective authors directly on Instagram Live Wednesday afternoon (recorded here), “Letting you know who I am and what I really do.” As he noted, his first wave of submissions “operated in a framework of how publishing has existed. In other words, you are pitching me imagining me to be someone that represents the establishment in a way that doesn’t align with who I really am.” Broadly, Israel advised, “I want to work with the writers who understand the communities that are going to be impacted because your work is in the […]