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(Video ID: a white person with short reddish hair, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, sits before a bookshelf and talks. /end ID)

Transcript: So, my next question that I’m answering is, do you have a favorite story, short or otherwise, that you’ve come across through your publishing work?

I’m interpreting that to mean, of the things we’ve published, what I personally liked the best?

Now, obviously, I don’t play favorites as an editor as a publisher. Everybody’s stuff is awesome. I wouldn’t be publishing it if I didn’t think it was awesome. Flip side, I’m still a person. I still have preferences. In general, I tend to prefer mlm/Achillean stuff. I think that – I sort of was scanning through everything I’ve read for the Press.

I think my personal favorite is probably one of the short stories in He Bears the Cape of Stars. Which it – it was – I think the author is Julia Perroni, and it was about, um, a mask maker and tailor and craftsman and the lord who always came to them to have their masks made. And it had a sort of Regency historical vibe, and it was just. That’s the kind of thing I like to read. I really just love stories like that. So I think if I have to pick one favorite, that’s the one that was, like, near and dear to my heart.

It was actually funny, because somebody – I think it – somebody else who read it was like, I didn’t like the ones that were the most, like, traditional, you know Regency romance type stuff, like that one! So, it really – that’s what taste really is. Somebody’s favorite is always gonna be what somebody else isn’t that into. But that story was really in my wheelhouse. I’d read a ton of stories just like that.

Bye!

(not in the recording: the story is Porcelain Skin by Julia Perroni in the anthology He Bears the Cape of Stars. There’s an excerpt here.)