{"id":3940,"date":"2022-04-28T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2024-11-22T15:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:08:48","slug":"if-animals-could-talk-an-interview-with-carla-butwin-and-josh-cassidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/if-animals-could-talk-an-interview-with-carla-butwin-and-josh-cassidy\/","title":{"rendered":"If Animals Could Talk: An Interview with Carla Butwin and Josh Cassidy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosm.pub\/podcast\">People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing podcast<\/a>, we had the pleasure of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Nxko3SKIKds\">speaking with<\/a> Josh Cassidy and Carla Butwin, the intrepid creators of brand-new Microcosm publication <em><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/11489\">If Animals Could<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/11489\">Talk<\/a><\/em>. Hear their amazing story, which spans entire eras of viral social media, two very different publishing houses, and countless foul-mouthed, frank, all-too-human animals. Get into the details of producing a highly-visual book, and contemplate the merits of various editorial styles. This book is a publishing parable of our times. 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