My name is YaYa. I’m sitting here in the corner of my daughter’s home, surrounded by toddlers and their parents. You should come and talk to me. I know the reporter who bought the Zapruder film for LIFE. I threw a party for JFK, Jr., after he launched George. I hosted a dinner for Jeff Bezos when we thought he was just a bookseller. I’d love to share my stories from publishing back in the day. But time moves on. And those stories have lost their currency. My name is YaYa. Over here. You should come and talk to me.
Holly Brady, former director of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course, is a writer, editor, and publishing strategist in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.hollybrady.com and for more on her upcoming novel www.pescaderonovel.com