Hundley said that Gay’s eye for talent, in addition to the talent she herself possesses, was enormously appealing to Grove. Gay will select and edit the books her imprint publishes, but she will also work closely on these projects with Amy Hundley, an executive editor at Grove who edits Gay’s work.
Grove also said Wednesday that it plans to offer a paid, one-year fellowship program that would serve as a crash course in publishing, for applicants without access to such jobs through traditional pathways. “There are so many barriers and so many gates,” she said. She cautioned that that could change if the volume of manuscripts becomes overwhelming, but said it was worth a try. Conversations on Love (Audio Download): Natasha Lunn, Natasha Lunn, Roxane Gay, Greg Wise, Lemn Sissay, Juno Dawson, Melanie Reid, Stephen Grosz, Mira Jacob, Ayisha. Gay, who is based in Los Angeles, will make her first call for submissions this summer and plans to open her doors to writers with and without agents. (She and Grove declined to say what the minimum will be.) Her own first advance at Grove - which she said was too low - was $12,500.
She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist. It has published Gay’s fiction since 2014, starting with her first novel, “An Untamed State.” She said the company has committed to offering a minimum for advances at her imprint. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Grove is one of the larger independent publishers in the United States and one of the most prestigious.
