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Publishing Industry

Who are your favorite publishing people to follow?

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With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! The social media landscape is certainly chaotic these […]

Janet Reid shifted the tide

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While I was away, I saw the very sad news that literary agent Janet Reid passed away. In an industry notoriously slow to change and beholden to ancient (and often elitist) customs, it’s difficult to overstate what a game changer Janet represented as the biggest early blogging literary agent, first with the anonymous Miss Snark, […]

Traditional publishing vs. self-publishing. Which should you choose?

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To self-publish or traditionally publish. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of agents and publishers or to take arms against a sea of books on Amazon, and by being among them, rise above? To die, to sleep (oh wait you won’t), to sleep perchance to […]

It’s harder than ever to rise above the noise. It’s also a golden era for writers

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After not changing terribly much from the early 2000s to the pandemic in 2020, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the traditional publishing industry has lurched into a new era. Things that were once unthinkable have become the new normal. Remote work! Agents struggling to get their projects even considered by editors! Electronic contracts and record […]