A couple of weeks ago an editor asked on Twitter what people wanted to find when they visited publishers’ websites. You can guess what I said: my books, in prime position. But that was no help to the editor concerned who has more to consider than my ego, like attracting new customers, selling more books,…
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The Forest For The Trees
Here’s a charming blog post with lots of talk about cake (I’d much prefer the lemon to the chocolate) which along the way reports about a workshop with Betsy Lerner, an agent of very high repute who wrote one of my favourite books on writing and publishing, The Forest For The Trees. A revised and…
The Downside Ghosts, by Stacia Kane
I’ve known Stacia Kane online since she was a sweet little newbie unpublished writer, printing her manuscripts on pink sparkly paper and putting a cupcake in with each new submission just to give all those hard-working agents out there a better day.* My, how she’s grown. When I read Unholy Ghosts, the first book in…
Following On Blogger
I’ve received a few emails over the last couple of weeks from readers who were used to following my old Blogger blog from within their own Blogger dashboards, and who now can’t tell when I’ve posted something new here because there’s no “Follow” widget on my new site. If you come into this category, and…
Publishing: Broken Or Not?
Is publishing broken? It depends on your point of view. Publishing funds itself by selling books to readers. Everything it does is designed to maximise those sales because, like supermarkets and bakers and butchers and car manufacturers and shoe-makers and furniture makers and hat-makers, publishing is a business. It has to make lots of sales…