This week has been financial reporting week for some of the
big publishers. Oh the tangled web of eBooks and Print Books. Is one
cannibalizing the other? Pundits pored over the statistics. The Financial Review looked at the state of the publishing industry.
Mike Shatzkin has a brilliant post on the state of play with
publishers still sticking to their plan of high eBook prices. Mike shows why he
thinks this is a short sighted idea. The comments on this article were fast and
fascinating with people discussing buying habits. Do you wait for a sale or buy
an $11.99 eBook?
Gladdening the heart of Publishing warriors everywhere was
the nice little snapshot of Author Earnings ISBN acquisitions. They are in
decline. So was this why PRH cut them loose?
How often do you write what you want to write? How often
does your editor get cold feet or ask you to tone it down. Or you get cold feet
and tone it down first. This week K.C Alexander took over Chuck’s blog to talk about how she was tired of having her characters toned down, as not fitting a
perceived feminine model... and things were about to change. This is an
excellent post on courage and truth to your writing.
Kris Kathryn Rusch has been putting together an anthology of
the early women writers in SFF. She explains how she came to be involved in the project. It all stemmed from being told that women were discriminated against
in Science Fiction. Women of a certain age are ignored and their work
disappears... so what do you do. You get MAD and then you become a force...
Kris was about to post the last article in her Dealbreakers
series when she heard about the demand by Hachette for the advance back from
Seth Grahame-Smith over the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies series. It’s big
money and the contract is murky. This is a must read post as Kris explains. The
contract is available to read and it is scary. The author was not the most
important party in this contract. They weren’t even second...
In The Craft Section,
How to create tension in your writing- Now Novel- Bookmark
Opening your story- What you need to know- Janice Hardy-
Bookmark
Using contractions in dialogue- K M Weiland- Bookmark
How to create strong character arcs- Sean Platt and Jonny B
Truant- Bookmark
Avoiding book publishing blunders – The Book Designer- A
great all round article!
Writing setting descriptions – James Scott Bell – Bookmark
A great collection of articles on Revision- Kidlit411
In The Marketing Section,
Book Marketing – The Good The Bad and The Ugly
10 tips to get book reviews- Anne R Allen- Bookmark
How authors can work together to promote- Janice Hardy-
Bookmark
7 ways Non Fiction authors can be newsworthy- Nina Amir
How to make successful use of your author platform- Rachel
Thompson - Bookmark
To Finish,
LitHub is an interesting website that publishes long form
interviews and articles. Today they published an article on Nan Talese, an editor with her own imprint at Knopf Doubleday. It is a fascinating look through her
life in publishing from editing Hemingway to working with Simon Tolkein.
You have to be a little bit mad and passionate to write and work in publishing.
You have to be a little bit mad and passionate to write and work in publishing.
Maureen
@craicer
Pic: Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931)
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