Tri Color Publishing Editor mug

About this publishing editor gift

Publishing editors spend their days red-penciling other people's sentences, chasing authors past deadlines, and arguing over commas that nobody else will ever notice. Many of them also read manuscripts at night and on weekends, so the gifts they keep tend to be the ones that acknowledge the odd, mostly invisible craft behind a book. A tee or hoodie with their title on it is a fun nod to a job most people don't understand. A mug is the one that sits on the desk through every manuscript deadline and every stack of galleys. To make it theirs, change the second line to the imprint, the genre they edit, or the year they started. A publishing editor who has worked on a particular kind of book, such as cookbooks, science fiction or literary fiction, will recognize the detail immediately and feel seen by it.