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Inverted Publishing Funnel
Nathan Bransford’s June 10 HuffPo post, “The Rejection Letter of the Future Will Be Silence (And Why This is a Good Thing)” expresses the optimism that I share about the democratization of the...
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Agent Andrew Wylie Is Threatening to Bypass Publishers
Agent Andrew Wylie is threatening to bypass publishers and license his authors’ e-book rights directly to Google, Amazon or Apple because he is unhappy with publishers terms. In an interview with...
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Why You (Still) Want an Agent
I enjoyed Eric’s lighthanded but thoughtful reflection on the merits of working with a literary agent in the digital age. The times, they are a-changin’, mes auteurs. The digital age means more books...
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Publishing Isn’t Broken
Publishing isn’t broken, or so says Jane Smith over at How Publishing Really Works, and here’s why. The very best books from the very best writers get published; books get sold; and writers, agents,...
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Publishing Chain; Vanishing Links
“Technology has made virtually anything possible,” says Neill Denny, editor-in-chief of the publishing industry magazine The Bookseller. “If you look at it conceptually – there’s a five-link chain...
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Individualize Your Query
“Working on the query letter” by Doug Sharp, on Flickr I don’t think a query is a one-size-fits-all device. I don’t think the same query necessarily works for all agents or all authors. That being...
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EBook Summit 2010 in Review
Panelists at eBook Summit 2010 What does tomorrow’s publishing world look like? MediaBistro’s eBook Summit dove into the “New Era of Publishing” on December 15, 2010 at The New Yorker Hotel to explore...
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Seduce the Agent
At the end of July Jane Friedman (@janefriedman), posting from the Midwest Writers Workshop said, “Probably the stand-out advice of the morning was from Marcus Sakey, who talked at length on query...
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Query. Wait. Fail.
“Queries received in 2010: around 10,000. New clients taken on from query (no referral): 0.” [...] Those 10,000 queries represent approximately 10,000 writers who have dreams of seeing their book in...
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