Lately, four of the self-published authors I follow (on their blogs and Twitter) have said that they are giving up. Some are giving up writing altogether, some are giving up their attempts to be successful. Four is quite a rash and I wonder if it is a sign of things to come. The three [...]
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Courtesy of the very kind Marilee Brothers, I had the chance to blather about the three-ring circus we call publishing on her most excellent blog. If you’re interested in what I think about small publishers, self-publishing, and the Big Six, you should hop over there. If not, you should go there anyway as there [...] A big tick in the box Remember what my 2010 end of year report said was the one thing 2011 would be all about? Or when I tried to find a single word to describe my hopes for 2011? Yes, this was going to be the year that I got myself a literary [...] Not for the faint-hearted Will somebody please say something comforting? Or pass me a chocolate eclair. No, make that a double. You see, today I had an email from an agent about my book, ‘The Credulity Nexus’. It seems they had read the MS in a single sitting, thought it was “a wonderful [...] What does a novelist need from a publisher? The question might sound a bit daft but, when publishing your own writing is so easy and so cheap, and finding a publisher is so hard, a writer really needs a good answer to this question. A related question is, what does a novelist need from [...] I read yet another blog post recently about writers not following submission guidelines. This one was by a publisher, but I’ve also read them from agents and magazine editors. Well, yes, writers should follow the submission guidelines. The fact that every agent and editor in the whole world has ever-so-slightly different requirements notwithstanding, it [...] |
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