Escaping Stockholm

[mizkit]

By reader request, I’m posting Judith’s entire Escaping Stockholm essay as one post, too, for ease of linking and perhaps ease of discussion. I shall, however, put it all behind a cut tag straight off, in order to not re-flood the friends’ list. :)

If you wish to break it out and read each section individually, here you go:

Part One | Part Two |

Comments

[la_marquise_de_]

She's talking a lot of sense, at least for those writers who have the career backlist. I do wonder, though, what becomes of the writers like me -- the ones who took forever to sell, who write slowly, who haven't hit the magical button of either success or Important Critical Darling. I am hugely lucky in my editor, who is hugely tolerant of my weaknesses. But if that should change... I guess I go back to writing for myself, because I fail at that modern two-books-a-year-self-promote-be-everywhere mode, and Locus don't think I'm worth anything.

[dancinghorse]

Author co-op. We need more Book View Cafes.

[la_marquise_de_]

I'm never sure I have much to contribute, alas, but they are fine things.

[dancinghorse]

What do you do for Eastercon? The list of women writers? The writers you help and support and signal-boost? That's a huge contribution.

[la_marquise_de_]

UK fan pecking order is such that doing stuff for Eastercon is pretty low status, in fact :-)! But I'm glad I'm useful, at least.

[dancinghorse]

Status doesn't matter. It matters that you do it.

In a co-op, one doesn't (or shouldn't) do status. It's all for the good of the group and its members.