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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Inlander:
--- Quote ---In the event, while RUSSELL AND PETER is an affecting story and I"m sure would appeal to many people, in what is a very difficult publishing environment I don't think it's quite strong enough for me to be confident I could sell it to the commercial publishers with whom we generally do business. My advice: look to some of the smaller, more innovative houses such as Sleepers Publishing and Transit Lounge. They may pay little or nothing by way of an advance, but they also don't require than an agent be attached to the project.
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To be fair with so many people wanting to be writers these days the writing industry has become incredibly compartmentalised, as nobody has time to do everything. Once upon a time maybe an agent would have given a writer advice on their manuscript but nowadays they've got their work cut out for them just trying to keep ahead of the constant flow of submissions they get, so they leave that job to specialised manuscript appraisal services.
The problem is that everyone in the publishing industry is shit-scared for their jobs and their future at the moment, and as a consequence publishing is going through an incredibly conservative period. A typical question you see in publisher's submission guidelines, which absolutely drives me mad, is: "What book would you see as a comparison title to yours?" When you've written an 80,000 word manuscript about something with the express intention of writing something unlike anything you've read before (in my case, a story detailing the end of a long-term relationship in which the word "love" is explicitly never mentioned, and in which the "triumphant ending" is actually the final and definitive dissolution of that relationship, and furthermore in which the two people breaking up try their utmost to remain civil with each-other, all intertwined with, basically, a story about what it's like to be a domestic cat) that's an incredibly difficult and kind of futile question to try to answer.
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 30 Mar 2011, 04:43 ---
--- Quote from: Gemmwah on 30 Mar 2011, 03:32 ---I'm pretty sure I'm going to die of exhaustion this week, guys.
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There are a few politicians who've been elected post-mortem. You can join their ranks.
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Wasn't there a guy in Missour-ah that got elected like 3 weeks after he died?
Gemmwah:
If I die, I had better win. That'd be fuckin' amazing.
Verergoca:
Harry, i have no idea if this is good advice, but have you thought about publishing your books as e-books on the interwebs? I hear this cuts out the middlemans quite hard?
snalin:
My curriculum includes a book named prioritizing web usability. It's written in 2006. Some of the things they write are so wrong that it's painful. Like "most video clips needs to be shorter than one minute" for people to bother to watch them on the internet.
This book was released at the same time as youtube had started getting 65k video uploads a day, according to wikipedia. What the hell I hate this class.
EDIT: "going forward, mac will probably continue it's decline (in market share)". Why do people still think that you can write books about technology and predict the future in any way?
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