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Fun Fridays – May 9, 2025
I really hope my book won’t be featured in this museum!
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Failure to be published traditionally or unsuccessful self-publishing often results from writing what you want, rather than what readers want, to read. This is common in book publishing, where the market’s randomness and subjectivity create a disconnect between authors, publishers, and readers. Every step along the publishing process attempts to predict the desires of the next step. More often than not, it’s a miss. The eventual reader is impossible to predict with 100% certainty. Years ago, I recall watching an interview with a newly installed CEO of a large publishing company. The person previously worked in the general-consumer product industry …
Things You Don’t Know You’re Saying
Publishing is a funny business. Not funny “ha ha” but funny “strange.” And funny “mystical.” And funny “inscrutable.” Is that enough funny for you? Not laughing? That’s funny. But seriously, folks, one of those funny things I experience in my work as a literary agent is that people often say things they don’t mean to say, in person and in their book proposals (which is how I start the conversation about representation, not with a query but with a full proposal … and by “full,” I mean hook, summary, author section, marketing/platform section, comparisons, manuscript status, outline or synopsis, and …
“You Are What You Do” – A Very Dangerous Myth
Typically, we define work as something we “do.” Work can then be defined as the activity you do as a profession and for which you are paid. But if you are a writer, the latter half of that formula isn’t always a guaranteed proposition! Thus, for the writer, we are left with a definition of work as being what you do. But that can be a dangerous thing because we tend to let what we do define who we are. I can speak to this firsthand. Over 30 years ago, I lost my job. I won’t go into the gory …
Fun Fridays – May 2, 2025
People may define “fun” differently. Today’s video is “fun” by my definition because it is interesting, instructive, and done by someone with a delightful accent. Seriously though, I often forget that not everyone knows the vocabulary for the various pieces of a printed book. This video may help! ShareTweet