Ten years ago, publishers and agents thought digital publishing was going to take over the industry. It didn’t, but the advent of inexpensive book readers means that the digital format stands a better chance of succeeding this time [...]
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What could this ancient ad possibly have to do with publishing in 2010? Oh, it's a reach, but… I’ve been hearing the death knell ringing for the book again a lot lately. Not any particular book. All of them. The book as an object, as something you can carry out of a store or, as [...] Ways in which real writing life is not like Castle: until just now, I had actually forgotten that I had a book debut today. No glitzy launch parties, nobody offering me a bosom (throbbing or otherwise) to sign, no staking out Barnes & Noble to see if anybody is buying my book. Definitely no huge standup [...] I started a novel back at the beginning of November. I wrote well beyond the required fifty thousand words required for Nanowrimo and the annual challenge, and sometime in January, I finished. The book came in between 80,000 and 90,000 words. I immediately set it aside. I don’t know how many know or remember, but [...] I’m not a 13-year-old boy from Western Maine, but I pretended to be one on the internet. That sounds a lot worse than it really is. It wasn’t an undercover sting to flush out predators. It was part of an alternate reality game (ARG) run by Scribner to promote Under the [...] |
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