It’s a challenge we’re all up against as acquisitions editors: relying equally on passion for a project as we do on the “safety” of previous sales. Ideally, you get a chance to convince the acquisitions team with both, but sometimes all you have is one. I have been in those situations before, and find myself again in both kinds now.
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Seth Godin’s got some marketing skills that demand your attention if you blog at all. His post on how to get traffic to your blog is off-the-hook, mad, sick, sweet, shizzle, and other trendy, street-lingo euphemisms that don’t deserve utterance. Stop by if you can stand the aroma of desperate groupies.
I can’t make this stuff up, folks. Just read this from my inbox. Maybe you saw it too. INDUSTRY NEWS [From Christian Retailing] “Tomorrow, 06-06-06, marks release of ‘The Rapture’ In one of the year’s biggest marketing tactics, tomorrow, June 6—or 06-06-06—a slew of products both Christian and secular will release. [Among them,] Tyndale House Publishers will release the third
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Okay, this one’s just between us. Don’t go telling anyone, but it came up in staff meeting again today, this question of how far we as editors should go in working things out between our authors as advocates while also acting as publisher representatives. No doubt it’s why so many editors become agents eventually as they’re thrust into the dual
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Haven’t you grown up yet? Is that laughter? What the blazes is so funny? Quit that childishness! What is that noise? I don’t have time for your silliness! Just go outside if you’re going to act that way. That’s quite enough! And so we grow. Taught to put away our happiness, cover our inappropriate joy, quit making those types of
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