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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
4:24:00 PM EDT
Hearing Shake Me -- Sam Bisbee
I've pointed to book editor Anna-Louise Genoese before, when she's had useful and practical advice to folks on how to submit book manuscripts to editors. Now she's got not advice, but some real inside information on how publishers figure out their "profit and loss" estimates for the books they publish, and what that means for the authors whose books they are buying. This is stuff that even authors are not entirely up on (although they should be), and gives you an idea that publishing a book is more than a simple "hey, I like this book -- I think I'm gonna buy it" on the part of the editor and publisher. Makes you wonder (or makes me wonder, anyway) how anyone gets published at all.
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4:24:00 PM EDT
Hearing Shake Me -- Sam Bisbee
Pushing Back the Veil on the Publishing Industry One Thread at a Time
I've pointed to book editor Anna-Louise Genoese before, when she's had useful and practical advice to folks on how to submit book manuscripts to editors. Now she's got not advice, but some real inside information on how publishers figure out their "profit and loss" estimates for the books they publish, and what that means for the authors whose books they are buying. This is stuff that even authors are not entirely up on (although they should be), and gives you an idea that publishing a book is more than a simple "hey, I like this book -- I think I'm gonna buy it" on the part of the editor and publisher. Makes you wonder (or makes me wonder, anyway) how anyone gets published at all.
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That's exactly why every single book I write- even children's books or books I plan on selling through the 700 Club or something- has a chapter where one of the female characters ends up in a prison shower.
4/28/06 2:07 AM
natalie