Don’t Panic
Dec 09You’ve probably already heard about Houghton Mifflin’s cutbacks, and the big news, that they plan on not accepting new manuscripts. There’s also some speculation that Borders may not be able to keep their bookstores open. Ouch! I heard it on NPR on my way home the other evening, and my first reaction was to wonder how any publisher can survive without new books. I’m not...
Just another slush pile
Dec 03I saw a site mentioned in this month’s Reader’s Digest (of all places), Authonomy. The gist is this, you put up your novel on the site, which is run by Harper Collins, it gets voted on, and the top novels get read by editors at HC. That led me to doing some research on whether other publishers are doing something similar. One of the first sites I found was Writer Beware Blogs, which...