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On episode 56 of the podcast, we’re going Behind the Book with Stephanie Lim. Stephanie is the co-founder of Third State Books, a new publishing house that amplifies the voices, stories, and issues of Asian America and the Pacific Islands. They publish fiction and nonfiction for both adults and children.
Stephanie Lim is a publisher and marketing executive who brings an abiding love of literary classics, guilty-pleasure genre fiction, fanfic, and children’s books to her work at Third State Books. She spent over 15 years in digital marketing and operations, first as a strategist for advertising clients at Google, then leading e-commerce teams and managing multi-million-dollar advertising budgets for retail brands such as ModCloth, Bebe, and Serena Williams’s eponymous fashion label. She co-founded Third State Books in 2023.
During this enlightening conversation with Stephanie we discuss:
- Why she left a career in e-commerce and fashion to run a publishing company.
- What are the unique challenges Asian-American authors face in the mainstream publishing industry.
- What new titles Third State Books is putting out next and why.
- Why she wants to see more Asian Americans getting to play the main character in books and in life.
- Why she wants to dispel the myth that Asian Americans only read and write literary fiction.
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