“As some of you may have heard, today is my last day at Tor Books,” McGhee wrote in the resignation letter she shared on Twitter.

Add school loans, subtract a second job or additional subsidy and you risk being factored out of a career in letters before the ink on your college diploma has had a chance to dry. For context: It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to live in or near New York City (epicenter of bookmaking) on an entry-level publishing salary.

On March 11, McGhee joined a group of junior and midlevel employees who exited the publishing industry, blaming low pay, unrealistic workloads and burnout. You have contributed so much more to this book and to my earthly existence than you will ever know.” It says, “Edited by Molly McGhee.” In her lengthy acknowledgments section, the formerly self-published author and BookTok sensation whose real name is Alexene Farol Follmuth writes, “Thank you to Molly McGhee, my beloved editor, who soothes my!!!s and?s me at all the right moments. TITAN OF INDUSTRY On the copyright page of Olivie Blake’s fantasy novel “The Atlas Six,” readers might notice an unobtrusive line of print above the ISBN data and below the title.

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