• On Writing,  publishing

    The New World of Publishing: A Return to the Past

    A Look Back at January 11, 2011 That’s right, I wrote the following post on January 11, 2011, talking some about the coming war between writers and the problems with the future of agents. I was looking back at some old posts to clean them out and stumbled on this and was stunned. I remember warning people of the coming war between writers and getting laughed at. Not sure anyone is laughing anymore, sadly. Take a look back at 2011.  Anything I put in (Bold Italics is a comment I have added tonight.) ———— Okay, time to talk about agents and their future in this changing world. Mary Kole, who…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    The New World of Publishing: Some Perspective On 2012

    Interestingly enough, 2012 was the first seemingly stable year in the new normal we are all living in the publishing industry.  Does that mean that nothing changed? Of course not. Some things changed, but not like 2009-2011. And some things will continue to change. But when you step back and look at the business in general, the changes in 2012 were pretty minor and predictable and normal. So just for fun, I thought I would go over what I consider the fairly major changes in publishing that happened so far in 2012. And try to give a little perspective from the advantage of watching and living inside of publishing for…