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The New World of Publishing: The World is Not Ending
Lately the conversation among writers and editors and some publishers is very two-sided. Either the world of publishing will completely change in the next few years or everything will stay the same (and just some new stuff will get added in). For traditional publishers, my belief of what will happen is closer to the second: Not much will change except for more tightening and a few of the weaker publishers going down. But that said, I think for SOME writers the first option is coming to pass: Everything will completely change. And already has started to. Yeah, that makes sense…not. So let me see if I can, in this world…
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Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Book as Event
I figured in the month where so many people around the world are joined in a challenge to write at least 50,000 words or so of a novel, now would be a good time to take on this myth. I love the challenge and the fact that it gets so many people writing, and writing quickly. But then when the month is over the myths kick in. Book as Event is a huge myth that stops most everyone who has done the challenge from simply mailing their books to editors and doing it again the following month. In fact, I have already heard over and over from people who are…