Make Her Laugh Make Her Cry

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Once upon a time, you could write a book and that was that. Somehow — magic, probably — customers found the books and fortunes were made. Hmm, not entirely true. Authors have always been part artist, part salespeople; it’s simply that the marketing thing wasn’t mentioned in public. Bad for digestion, you know. At Three Rivers Press, Carrie Thornton likes books that focus on today’s culture (as long as said focus will be relevant tomorrow, see: Bob Marley example). She also like authors who come with a nice little platform, making it easy to launch the book into the cruel,

Publishers and Editors

Contest Emptor

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Let us all be honest for a moment: writing contests are often fundraisers. While you, the writer, might get a critique and maybe your work will make its way to an editor or agent’s desk, the contests are often a way for organizations to make money. No shame in that, by the way, but those who enter contests need to recall this. They probably won’t, of course. Writers are notoriously willfully blind when it comes to the business of writing. One must have a certain level of hubris to submit work to agents and editors, it’s true, but one must

Square Pegs

On Learning Something New

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The task of flipping the book upside-down every eight pages is actually less tedious than it sounds. An outsider novelist goes, er, traditional: Mark Z. Danielewski’s postmodern cred is genuine, but so is his attention to the teenage heart in the new ‘Only Revolutions.’

Quote of the Week

If Content Is King…

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We’re going to do something dangerous. We’re going to make an assumption (yes, yes, we know): we’re going to assume that a few of you are old enough to remember the olden days. Those halcyon moments of yore, when watching television meant taking what they wanted to show you, when listening to the radio meant suffering through someone else’s idea of good music, and when reading the book you wanted was dependent on your local bookstore’s decision to stock it. Times have changed. We have downloadable television. We have satellite radio and iPods and MP3 players in our cars. We

Marketing For Introverts, The Future of Publishing
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