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Ideas behind the books.
Current reading updates from the House, alongside Ori Refael Peretz on stories, editions and the choices behind the founding list.
Publishing & Housecraft
Why a publishing house needs a point of view
A house becomes recognizable through judgment, not repetition.
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Reading update
Reading from the works.
Book previews and a three-puzzle sampler. Start with the available work.
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Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding begins with consequence
A map can show where people live. A world has to explain why they live that way.
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Edition Design
Build the book as an object, not a container
The physical edition should carry meaning before it carries prestige.
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Publishing Strategy
The discipline of an opening slate
A small catalogue does not need to imitate the signals of a large one.
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Housecraft
The case for slower publishing
Speed is useful. Attention is the scarce resource.
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Reading update
Reading from the works.
Book previews and a three-puzzle sampler. Start with the available work.
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Publishing & Housecraft
Why a publishing house needs a point of view
A house becomes recognizable through judgment, not repetition.
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Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding begins with consequence
A map can show where people live. A world has to explain why they live that way.
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Edition Design
Edition design is part of the reading experience
The edition begins shaping expectation before the first sentence is read.
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Art Direction
One house, three identities
A recognizable publisher does not need to make every book look related at first glance.
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Worldbuilding
What a world bible is actually for
The document is not the world. It is the instrument that keeps the world coherent while the story moves.
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House Idea
What deserves authority?
A question of legitimacy, inherited structures and the ideas we allow to govern us.
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Edition Notes
When a cover becomes an argument
How cover design can communicate a book’s central tension before the first page.
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Systems
How invisible systems become powerful
How ordinary systems shape behavior, gain legitimacy and become difficult to question.
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