On the topic of authors, I would love to see more publishers develop authors over time, not just chase the new debut. (I say this as someone whose publisher DOES do this for me, and I wasn't a debut when they took me on. But it feels so rare to receive support post debut!)
Reposted from
Marc Diamond
Grow, grow, grow.
I think that brings everything crashing down eventually, and ‘sustain’ is a lesson that few businesses ever seem to learn. 😔
I think that brings everything crashing down eventually, and ‘sustain’ is a lesson that few businesses ever seem to learn. 😔
Comments
To my mind, the pressure on the publishers to do better ($) every year (and this is the same for most public companies) makes them stretch their capabilities too thin, drop quality, take on too much…and invariably drop the ball on what was good in the first place. 😔
I've heard tell of big pubs asking reasonably good sellers to write a
That said we'll be marketing mine as a debut novel; but that's cos it is one! 😜