The conversation was about the “rules.” Mr. McGrumpypants insisted that he knew what agents and editors wanted, despite having never actually landed an agent, and having only been “edited” by a very, very small press publisher who went out of business shortly thereafter, and many years later by a one-man shop “e-book publisher.” In spite [...]
I was over snooping around some aspiring writers’ site and it hit me. People pay big bucks to get opinions on their work. Back in my Authonomy days, I heard of writers spending hundreds of dollars for “critiques” by professional editing services. One author published her critique, which basically advised her to dumb it down [...]
In a New York Times opinion piece, There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen, (1/3/10), Jonathan Galassi — President of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, writes of the decision by the heirs of William Stryon’s estate to put out e-book versions of the author’s work. Galassi wonders whether e-books are “a new frontier in publishing” [...]
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