Shop MTP magazine was created by Jon Phillips and Alison Nelson, who envisioned a publication for book lovers: those who spend countless hours scouring bookstore shelves, clipping book reviews, and poring over author bios and reading lists. Jon and Alison looked high and low for a comprehensive source of literary advice they could trust and imagined a research team toiling away on their behalf, summarizing book reviews, highlighting the best works of classic and contemporary authors, presenting books in various genres and on various topics, and uncovering everyday readers’ favorite books. They looked everywhere, but they couldn’t find that team, that one source, that dream magazine.
As a result, they created it, and the editorial team was born. With issue #2, I was fortunate enough to join Jon and Allison. Since then, I’ve added in the leadership of the group.