The Daily Square – Teach Your Children Edition
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On Erudition
With the smash success of “The Da Vinci Code,†publishers have been increasingly attracted to entertaining fiction with a dollop of erudition. Holt Bets on Mystery Novel as a Fall Best Seller
Where Are All The Authors From?
Apparently, there is a rise in agents charging upfront and reading fees in the United Kingdom. Of course predators exist everywhere — if there is a sucker born every minute, then there is also a huckster born soon after. What perplexes us is the fact that people fall for these tricks over and over. We were particularly struck by this notion: One reason for the rise in complaints is that demand for agents vastly outstrips supply. “Too many people want to be published,†[Clare ]Alexander [president of the Association of Authors’ Agents] says. But why? Are there really so many
On The Dawn Of The Golden Moment
We know that the book-buying audience is diminishing, and it’s just such a heroic effort to stay alive. We know that the reading audience is diminishing; we know that certainly this generation of kids has a lot more to do to distract them from reading books than one or two generations ago even. So part of it is the changing economics of publishing, and the need to have a healthy bottom line. And commercial work always, in the history of publishing, ensures the bottom line whereas literary work never does. And that’s just the way it is, and that makes
The Daily Square – Tear Stained Letter Edition
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Cynicism And The Cranky Old Man
Maybe it’s because the BS husband has been practicing to be old since he discovered that old people can say whatever they want and get away with it, but we find Otto Penzler’s brand of crotchety sort of cute, in a “huh?” sort of way. See, Penzler hates chicklit for its cynicism — but his argument is, hmm, peculiar at best. He chides Jennifer Weiner for her realistic (realistic not necessarily being the the same thing as cynical) attitude toward the publishing industry; he lauds Mickey Spillane for writing blatantly commercial work and referring to his readers as “customers”. Penzler
The Daily Square – Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste Edition
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