It’s strange blogging. It’s like publishing your journal or taking your shirt off in front of the class. It feels sort of wrong like I’m doing something I shouldn’t, which is probably why I like it. But for a while now I’ve been hovering around a few hundred visitors a day and while I’m not unhappy with that, I do
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I always wonder how much to say on stuff like this. I’m no expert. I only know how I look forward to reading stuff that’s cost the writer something to share. I want to see blood-and-guts truth splayed out on the pages my authors send. It’s sort of sick and twisted, I know, but I think it’s what readers look
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I love it, you know. I do. I complain about it, but it’s really a fun business. There are some bland characters, but there are so many interesting ones too. Mostly authors. They make the job fun. The ones who really make it fun are those who are just this side of heathens, you know what I mean? I think
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I should preface this bit of silliness by saying that I’m making unfair, sweeping generalizations about all of Christian book publishing here, both fiction and non-fiction. It is not only de rigueur to lament the state of the book business when among professionals, it is simply an editor’s biological, involuntary response to all the business and bustle of attending conferences.
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Somehow it escaped mention before, but Mikal Marrs reminded me of this article over at Publisher’s Weekly with the catchy title, “Pomos Toward Paradise.” How I forgot to post something on it, I don’t know, but it seemed vaguely familiar to me as I was reading through… Anyway, TMI. I meant to mention it here for your very much edification,
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