If you're not an AvantGuild member, have you ever wondered what it was you might be missing? Well, it's stuff like this. MB is starting a new biweekly series, chatting up "a new guard of book editors," but fortunately for everyone, for a limited time the debut is free. So check it out as Rachel Kramer Bussel talks to Little, Brown's Asya Muchnick, the editor of The Lovely Bones and The Dogs of Babel about the thrill of the new manuscript, the status of short stories, and writing what you want to write.