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Good morning, GalleyCat readers. My name is Maryann Yin and I am the newest correspondent to join GalleyCat.

Books have always been my passion, everything from Laura Ingalls Wilder to Mitch Albom. I am a fresh face in the book publishing industry with aspirations to do good work and add positive value. I just completed the Summer Publishing Institute at New York University. I feel very blessed to be in a position where I get to work in this field.

Read more at my Linkedin page. If you have any news tips, ideas or thoughts about the book publishing industry, please email me.

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It's been a great five months, but it's time for this GalleyCat writer to step back from the fine arts of third-person opinion-making, hyperlink humor, and of course, publishing industry coverage. I'm leaving to pursue a few different projects: Mostly, I'm going to keep makin' whiskey and drinkin' beer. And hating on vampires, but we all know that's nothing new. Stay cool, GalleyCats.

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Along with our digitally obsessed sibling eBookNewser, were honored to be included on the Huffington Post's 50 Best Book People To Follow On Twitter list. We'd like to say hello and welcome to all the new readers visiting our virtual home this morning.

If you want to subscribe to our newsletter, just sign up in the upper right hand corner of the site. Here are more of our weekly features:

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Also check out our lists: the Best Book Reviewers on Twitter and the Best Editors on Twitter. Finally, we wanted to add a few Twitter feeds that we read every day that weren't included on the list: Publishers Lunch, Book Beast, Michael Orthofer, Edward Champion, and Digital Book World.

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Hi, folks. My name is Mark Byrne and I'll be joining the GalleyCat staff, starting today.

I've been working in and around the publishing industry for a few years, in a couple capacities: first, as an associate editor at Featherproof Books, a small press in Chicago; then at New York Magazine, where I worked under the books editor and literary critic; and currently as a graduate student in the Literary Reportage program at NYU, where I'm writing a book-length, reported thesis on the independent publishing industry.

I've been reading GalleyCat for years and I'm excited to be on board. Please send any tips and ideas my way.

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Senior editor Ron Hogan dropped by the Market My Words blog earlier this week to offer some advice on author self-promotion, warning that they shouldn't get caught up in feeling like they have to blog or Twitter or get on the Facebook. It's not about the tools: "It's about having the passion to share your story with the rest of the world, and recognizing that you can't just expect people to stumble onto your book, or count on somebody else to do the marketing for you... The important thing is that you're there to be social, not just to wave your book in people's faces and ask/tell them to buy it. Get people to like YOU, and then they'll become curious about your book."

Hogan also showed up at Farrar Straus Giroux's The Best Words in Their Best Order to discuss his plans for National Poetry Month at his literary website, Beatrice.com—and while he was there, he explained why the current economic turbulence in publishing isn't likely to have any significant impact on poetry:

"Poetry is easily the most marginal facet of mainstream commercial publishing... At New York publishing companies, working on poetry collections is probably the purest labor of love the industry has to offer, and the advances, print runs and so forth are minimal compared to the most other types of books. And, sure, you could run the numbers and say, 'Hey, look at all the money we'd save if we cut these books out,' but taking poetry away from editors would be like—oh, like pulling all the water coolers out of the building. Whatever you'd save financially, it's not worth the hit to your staff morale when you take away the projects that give them that sense of doing something culturally significant."

Smaller indie presses, he continued are "acutely aware of just how economically marginal poetry is to what they do—and they don't care. They publish poetry because they love it, and they're going to keep publishing as long as they can afford to stay in business. (And though independent publishers may be at risk in this economic climate, publishing poetry isn't what put them there.)"

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Good morning, GalleyCat.

This is Jason Boog, the newest reporter on this excellent blog. For the last three years I've curated a little site called The Publishing Spot, and it is a real honor to join the MediaBistro family.

I've been a freelance journalist in New York City since 2003, writing for The Believer, Peace Corps Writers, and The Revealer. You can read more at my personal website.

At GalleyCat, I'll be chasing book news and shooting video stories. If you have any tips, ideas, or need a rowboat captain, email me.

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If you read that post about Bob Miller's move to HarperCollins and thought it sounded a bit different than the usual GalleyCat fare, that's because it was written by new contributing editor Emily Gould, who will be chiming in from time to time on the books, authors, and trends about which people are whispering in her ear. As soon as mediabistro.com began its search for an additional 'Cat, I thought it would be great to have her writing for the site, and I'm glad to see that that's come together. I look forward to reading more posts from her in the future, and I'm sure you will, too.

This is pretty much the first time I've ever successfully colored a greyscale drawing in photoshop. Before it always turned muddy and bland. Maybe I was using the wrong blending modes...
I'm not quite sure what this next one is. I had "Billie Jean" stuck in my head, so I guess it's some kind of Fat, Balding, Mutant Micheal Jackson from Hell with Lightning Shooting from his Hands in a Vengeful Fury. Or something.