It is cold and wet. June blasts from Antarctica have ensured
that we know Winter has arrived. I spent a hopeful five minutes today looking
at this publishing mini conference on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. It is in
the northern hemisphere winter... and as I turn up the heating and work on the
Tinderbox conference I’m wishing I could just transfer the whole thing onto a
cruise ship.
This week Book Expo America (BEA) has been on. Online
discussions have been on the business of publishing and reaction to Scalzi's $3.4m
publishing deal. There are a whole lot of green eyed authors out there who have
let their vitriol get away on them. Then there are the calm reasoned authors
who talk about the business and what Scalzi’s deal might mean to authors going
forward. Kris Rusch has an excellent analysis and I urge you to read the
comments for the great discussion on contracts. Then there is John Scalzi
himself who lays out what the deal means to him for the next decade. This is a very generous set of posts for an author to do. Read and Learn and raise a glass to him. By the way he is a
fantastic author!
The Nielson figures came out this week on e-book sales last
year and Futurebook has a handy analytical break down of the figures. Overall
the sales were down 6% but as Nielson was doing a five year comparison, in 2010
the number of e-books sold were 68 million and last year it was 240 million, I
don’t think anyone is too worried. Among lots of interesting data was this
nugget, juvenile fiction is on the rise.
Publishing Perspectives reported on BEA and the global rise
of... adult colouring books. Invest now in Faber Castell. Porter Anderson reported on the digital
conference held at BEA. With the huge amount of books now we need curators more than ever... and that is where the reader has to step up. Interesting article.
Jane Friedman is one of the Go To people for a perspective
on the publishing industry and here in her latest interview I think she nails how the publishing industry is now and where it might be going in the future.
This is a bookmark post.
In the Craft Section,
Putting your best work out there- Jody Hedlund
10 steps to editing with focus- (Bookmark)
How to write a brief synopsis- Janet Reid- (Bookmark)
How to organise your writing life, tracking characters-
Julia Kelly (Bookmark)
In the Marketing Section,
5 lessons learned between books 5and 6 - Molly Greene
A quick lesson on creating imprints- Joel Friedlander (Bookmark)
Formatting to print from MS Word – Jami Gold (Bookmark)
How to repurpose your blog posts -Nina Amir
5 top apps for writers – Wendy Jones
To Finish,
Who can resist an Infographic? Here is a great one looking
at the publishing process. Two years to a print book.
Choices abound in publishing 2015 but you can’t get away
from this pithy piece of advice.
Writing is an Art and Publishing is a Business – Chuck
Wendig
Maureen
@craicer
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