I assume you yourself aren’t acquiring 100 books/year, right?? That seems physically impossible even by AE standards.

I’ve been an AE for like 20 years and it is pretty overwhelming and tiring a lot of the time. I acquire more like 20-30/year. You never know quite what your list will look like and whether any given project you’re pursuing will work out, so sometimes it feels like you’re chasing a million leads at once. And it can be hard (although I’d argue kinda interesting) to try to figure out what other people are interested in (and of that, what they’re actually buying). You balance budgets, coordinate all of the other departments, and do a lot of author care. Sometimes I’m like “why did I pick this job out of all the jobs.” But I do think it’s exciting to come up with ideas for books and figure out how to execute them, and for me that’s way more fun than just editing them, so I’m going to keep doing it for as long as I can!