I’m off sunning myself on the coast, so here are some writerly sorts of links to look at while I’m gone:
It’s bad enough when anonymous people diss your book on websites, but how about when your own publisher does it in advance reader copies? All is not as it seems. Be sure to read the comments on this story.
If you have the problem of too many books to sign (some people’s problems), some publishing houses are now hiring ghost signers for their books.
Of course not all publishers are trying to help their authors out. Some publishers can’t be bothered to keep track of foreign rights royalties or even bother collecting them.
And then there are the publishers that don’t buy into the writer’s block theory. Used to be the occasional novelist could be slothful and miss their deadline for a manuscript and a publishing house would just brush it off as the cost of doing business. Not anymore, or not if you work for a movie producer.
See you next week (maybe I’ll even have written something while I’m cut off from the Internet this week).
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