Upcoming Event: A Conversation with Folio...
What do literary agents want? You’ll have an opportunity to learn from three of them on May 18th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, when Erin Harris, Jeff Kleinman, and Dado...
Events of Interest--Upcoming Early in 2016...
Aspiring fiction writers, mark your calendars! Several exciting events featuring novelists talking about craft are coming soon, and most are free. Jenny Offill, author of 2014's acclaimed Dept. of Speculation, will...
Press button for... short story: French...
From France: a new way of storytelling: https://www.rt.com/news/319609-grenoble-story-vending-machine
What's the real spread on revenues...
This post contrasts revenue distributions for books, film, theater, and concerts. The focus is on investors and the predictability of overall, average results. http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/dag2170/2015/11/21/blockbuster-and-unicorn-the-flaw-of-averages/
The Martian as Accidental Entrepreneur
What lessons does “The Martian” teach the Earth-bound Entrepreneur? Unless you’ve been stuck yourself on Mars, you’ve doubtless seen or heard about the film The Martian. And you may...
Here's Forbes' take on a new...
This new startup, Pronoun, is interesting in its own right, and Forbes' discussion of its strategy is also intriguing: http://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2015/10/02/publishing-startup-looks-for-way-around-amazon/
Drilling down into the digital publishing...
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2015/the-evolution-of-us-digital-innovation-in-publishing/
"The State of the Publishing Industry...
Friends, here is a post that will interest you. https://janefriedman.com/the-state-of-the-publishing-industry-in-5-charts/
DEFINING GENRE
Defining Genre Beth Hill, author of The Magic of Fiction (available only as a $14 PDF download), has an informative two part post on The Editor's Blog titled Defining Genre, Part 1 and Part 2. ...