Category Archives: Publishing
Why anyone can succed at publishing, or why publishing is failing
Just an abstract scenario, because I don’t want to get anyone (or myself) in trouble: Publisher owns print rights to backlist title. Publisher does not promote said title, resting on the title either selling well on its own or rotting. … Continue reading
Filed under Criticism, Publishing
Virgin Pulp
A new report has stated that children’s publishers across the board are promoting Indonesian deforestation, and the children’s market across all industries is unhappily tainted with reports of corner-cutting. Perhaps we wouldn’t be surprised to hear that a children’s book printed in China used that same ink mentioned in The Name of the Rose or a cheaper variant with the same implications. I suppose, all things considered, we’re lucky the books aren’t printed with lead ink! Continue reading
Filed under Criticism, Features, Publishing
Piracy as capitalism at work (part 1)
i’m writing this on my girlfriend’s laptop, which has the left shift key broken. apologies for the lack of caps, but smart people can read english without such an archaic tool. ** i hold piracy a subject near and dear … Continue reading
Filed under Criticism, Humanistic, Publishing
A letter to a client
The problem, however, is not one of artistry but of thoughtfulness. If you see how your world connects with the real world, you can exploit it in your writing to the delight of your fans; nobody how poorly this is done, your readership will appreciate the effort and the depth. Continue reading
Filed under Criticism, Publishing
Giving Value: A practice in blogging
Blogging, to writers, resembles the gold rush. We put our ideas onto electronic drives where they appear as pixels to whatever ghostly visitor happens to stumble across them for whatever reason. Just like the ’49ers, we bloggers barely grasp the technology, hardly fully or in a way that would benefit us most, and more importantly we understand or misinterpret the tools and benefits of social media. Yet despite the technical inability of most writers and our lack of ambition to succeed in the ethereal communities of the internet (as opposed to our ambition to succeed in the commodifiable community of publishing), we press on into this dream. Continue reading
Filed under Criticism, Humanistic, Journalism, Publishing
