Publisher Nicola Mason on the opportunities that have shaped Acre and her sensibilities as a reader and editor.
An Interview with Nicola Mason
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An Interview with Jenn Scott
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 3
Nicola Mason: Because the book involves time travel, there are two Aarons and two Violets (what one reviewer calls a ménage à quatre). As readers, we are privy to the thoughts of both Violets—the impassioned musician in 1988 and the frazzled mother of two in 2006....
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 2
Nicola Mason: In your essay “A Phenomenology of Fiction,” you describe how modern philosophy and quantum physics undergird not just your characters’ perceptions but your writing methodology as well. I was particularly struck by Christopher Tilley’s treatment of...
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 1
Nicola Mason: In Keeping Time, Aaron is an archaeologist—and American expat in Scotland—and his knowledge of Neolithic sites and rituals derives in large part from your script-writing research for Half Life, an environmental art event (taking place across a hundred...
Making a Splash: Acre’s Feature in Cincinnati Magazine
This week we’re thanking Cincinnati Magazine for Alyssa Konermann’s feature on Acre Books, including a conversation with Acre editor Nicola Mason. “We are interested in innovation, combining genres, hybrid forms,” Mason says in the interview, “and the idea that we can...
Interview with Jenn Scott
Nicola Mason, Editor of Acre Books, interviews Jenn Scott, author of Her Adult LifeNicola Mason: Some might characterize the stories in Her Adult Life as grim, yet I find them hopeful, largely because characters who are trapped, either by mindset or circumstance or...
The Calomel Question
Nicola Mason: Decades ago I went into publishing, not just because I love literature, but because I love copyediting. There’s a special pleasure in immersing myself in a writer’s style and syntax, the world of their story, essay, poem, or novel. My enjoyment is...
The Last (Fifth) C of Good Copyediting
Nicola Mason completes her YouTube series on the Five Cs of Good Copyediting. Today: Correctness.