Great Blog for Writers
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If you haven’t subscribed to Terry Whalin’s The Writing Life blog, I recommend you do so.
Terry’s blog is a wealth of information about writing and publishing. I’m continually amazed at how much he reads and reports.
His post yesterday about “The Awful Revelation“–discovering his book was out of print a whole year ago, yet no one had bothered to tell him–was particularly distressing to me.
It just underscored a truth: We authors must take 100 percent responsibility for our books.
Nobody cares about your book the way you do.
Least of all, the publisher, in most cases.
Publishing is going through a major upheaval on several fronts, folks. This kind of “dropping the ball” is happening much more often than any of us would like to think. Of late, all I seem to be hearing from my author and publishing friends, such as agents like Terry, is about how publishers are dropping the ball in various ways.
I’ll be reporting on the sea changes in the publishing world, and how they affect anyone who has published, or hopes to publish, a book. Stay tuned.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Diane,
Thank you for the kind words about my entries on The Writing Life. Writers have a clear cut choice in my view. They can either choose to plow ahead and ignore learning their craft and ignore learning the business of publishing and ignore learning to promote their books and tell others–and they will produce books which only reach a few people.
Or they can choose a different path where they craft excellent, relevant and page-turning books (as they learn their craft), understand the bok business is a business and much more than a creative endeavor, and finaly guide their own passion for the topic of the book so they tell others about it–consistently and broadly–for months and years after the book is published.
Terry
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