New York Times article about how publishers decide when to publish ebook versions of hardcover books. Not really much depth, but interesting that the big publishers seem to have decided to treat ebooks the same way as softcovers.
I’m somewhat surprised by how much people care about this, since it’s routine for paper to [...]
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publishers face issues scheduling ebooks
Posted in agents and marketing, reading, tagged marketing, reading on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
when is a novel done?
Posted in agents and marketing, writing, tagged agents, revising, writing on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I had a lengthy post about SF versus literary fiction half-ready to go, but I revised my intention so I could point out two recent posts Nathan Bransford has had about revising novels:
First, a very useful revision checklist.
And yesterday, an interesting discussion about how to tell when your novel is done?
I suspect [...]
agents, queries, and hoops
Posted in agents and marketing, tagged agents, marketing, platforms on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting post on Nathan Bransford’s blogs about the reasonableness of agent preferences.
He’s correct, of course (except for the bad agents and the scammers, but that’s a different issue), but doesn’t address at least one underlying problem: getting an agent means selling the manuscript, a job that is nothing like writing a novel. The skill sets [...]
