I was talking to a friend who summarized her Worldcon experience, and one thing she overheard was discussion about how the future of publishing is trending more toward direct-to-consumer. Is the day of the big publisher over? Well, not yet it isn't! The big bookstores are hanging on, and they are supplied by the big publishers ( Read more... )

Chris Dolley talks about the evolution of the Book View Cafe co-op, which I thought a pretty good rundown ( Read more... )

Deborah Ross posted her thoughts on editing vs. critiquingOutside of a buying editor having final authority, I don't see any real difference between editing and critiquing. But I guess that depends on how one defines either of those ( Read more... )

Judith Tarr raises some questions and also talks about ways for authors to take some of the power back. Disturbing, how many of the dumpees are women. But it's interesting how many female authors are saying, in effect, "Roger that. I'll find another way, then." And doing it.

Meanwhile, related, janni is running a series on long-term writers and why ( Read more... )

The only way self-published writers get any traction is by word of mouth, so I'm saving the regular Wednesday Reading post for next week (also, yesterday didn't seem a great day to post, too much anxiety-making news). Today is about the self-published works I've enjoyed, and feel free to recommend discoveries in the comments.

Terms of Enlistment, ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to say anything about the latest foofoo with a self published author going neener neener in regretfully sexist language, but Andrea K. Hoest has an interesting self-publisher's take on that and dealing with the image of the emerging self-published author ( Read more... )

What the header says. I like talking about self-published books that I enjoyed, in case someone else wants to give them a try. Today, there's the book and the wider subject, in particular the last question.

About portal fantasy and publishing, and good reading.

While I was visiting asakiyume we had a small but excellent writing workshop. I came away all excited about what people had seen in my first chapter of a thing--the bad and the good. All during my travels I tinkered with that chapter, addressing issues that people saw, then I woke up the night before last and realized I have to scrap the entire thing except ( Read more... )

The authoress has bestowed wonderful pains upon its composition [Shirley], and she has been rewarded accordingly. It has been slowly written, carefully digested, touched and retouched, reviewed and revised, corrected in manuscript and in proof, and in this respect it is a pattern to our modern novelists, who gives their scribblings to the press ( Read more... )