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The Myth of “Just An Author”

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As you may have heard, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel INHERENT VICE was published last week, which is newsworthy for many reasons, but my favorite tidbit is that the notoriously publicity-shy Pynchon actually lent his voice to his book trailer and provided a playlist of songs for Amazon. It is indeed 2009. But other than these […]

This Year in Publishing 2008

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2008 will be remembered as the year the future caught up with the publishing industry. For a long time we’ve been hearing rumblings about how publishers needed to reorganize, how bookstores couldn’t survive, how technology would impact the industry, and how e-books would shake everything up. And yet for much of the 00’s, change always […]

Going from Small Presses to Big Publishers

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Hope everyone had a great weekend, and I’m especially hoping that you recovered from fainting with joy upon seeing Phil’s dad on the Amazing Race last night. Oh. Um. Maybe that was just me. Reader Kathryn Born wrote in…. uh… when was it Kathryn? A while ago. She had a pretty simple but deceptively challenging […]

Following the Market

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A couple of different interesting threads of discussion opened up in the comments section of yesterday’s post, and there’s one in particular that I’ve been seeing around the Internet lately in different forms, namely the sentiment (or resentment) that agents and publishers determine what’s popular and what becomes a bestseller. To a certain extent, yes, […]

This Week in Publishing 6/27/08

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Busy week in publishing! The Wall Street Journal profiled another literary success story, this time for Andrew Davidson, who opted for an out-of-the-box query to Eric Simonoff that outlined why Eric shouldn’t represent him. (Kids, don’t try this at home. These stunts were performed by professionals). Doubleday snatched it up for quite the load of […]