In our finale to the podcast, we talk to one last person at the publishing house: the publisher.

This week we talk once again with our Penguin Young Readers publicists Lindsay Boggs and Kaitlin Kneafsey, and with our sales rep John Dennany, about putting together the book tour.

We’ve talked a bit about marketing in past episodes; this week we go more in depth with Julia Teece from Penguin Random House (UK) and Alexis Watts from Penguin Young Readers (US).

See You in the Cosmos is on the shelves of most bookstores in the English-speaking world. But it doesn’t get there automatically. Booksellers have to decide to stock it. And convincing them to stock it is in large part the responsibility of the publisher sales rep.

See You in the Cosmos has been reviewed in newspapers and magazines like The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and TIME for Kids. But media coverage around this book and others like it don’t happen by accident; they come as a result of the persistent efforts of the book publicist.

They say that everything's bigger in Texas. That's especially the case with libraries. I bring my mic to the Texas Library Association's annual conference.

See You in the Cosmos was born out of audio; this week, we talk to producer Karen Dziekonski about the making of the audiobook.

We've already talked about the cover. Now we talk to designer Jason Henry about the book's interior.

You’ve met my editors; now meet my copyeditors. This week we hear from Regina Castillo, Copy Chief at Dial Books for Young Readers, and Wendy Shakespeare, Senior Editorial Manager at Penguin Random House Children’s UK.

We've come back to where we began our story: roughly eight months out from publication. We pause for a moment before digging into the even more behind-the-scenes—and invisible—aspects of the publishing process.

As See You in the Cosmos launches this week in the US, UK, and rest of the English-speaking world, we look back on the internal launches that took place within the publishing houses roughly one year ago.

We talk with art director Jacqui McDonough about designing the cover.

We go deeper in the editing process, and talk about the differences between Young Adult and Middle Grade.

See You in the Cosmos was jointly acquired by two editors, one in the US and UK. We meet those two editors.

Weeks before See You in the Cosmos was sold to US and UK publishers, it was sold in Germany. Here's how it happened.

The manuscript is attached to an email, and that email is sent to editors at different publishing houses. The person sending it? The literary agent.

A novel is finished. Eight months later, a printed book appears on shelves. What happens in those eight months?