Authors and publishers must be willing to provide a well crafted and substantive product in both are to thrive and achieve financial success in the 21st century marketplace.
This takes time.
Authors must also fine and devise ways to remain in contact with our readers. The Internet becomes our godsend in this respect.
Of Fiction, Facebook and Potential Consumers of Our Writing… Read More »
[Writer’s Digest]–“What’s the most important change happening in the publishing industry right now that’s impacting the future of the author-agent relationship?”
[Agent–Paige Wheeler of Folio Literary Management]: “The change in the delivery mechanism is huge. Barriers of entry to publishing are down, and authors are able to make (their work) available to anyone with an Internet connection. It’s still a small percentage of the business, but it’s growing. ..the two biggest obstacles to success seem to be spectacular editorial content and the market capability to reach a vast audience. At Folio, we’ve been exploring opportunities (for) providing outside services (marketing, speakers services, licensing, apps) to really serve (authors’) needs.”
–Evolution of the Literary Agent, Writer’s Digest, October 2010
Agent, Paige Wheeler’s response to the question presented by the interviewer from Writer’s Digest gives a succinct summary of the new world of publishing that is available to writers and authors in connecting with readers.
Her comments also tell what we must do to be successful as career authors.
Of Apprenticeships, Marketing and Patience… Read More »
I recently read an article in the October 2010 Issue of Writer’s Digest Magazine.
While it bears the title, Evolution of the Literary Agent, one could easily substitute the word Publishing, for Literary Agent and the title would remain consistent with the content, if not more in line with and indicative of the topic(s) discussed and information given.
The four literary agents interviewed in the article, and their responses and comments leave much for any author, whether seasoned and financially successful or just starting out, to consider and ponder.
Of Agents, Publishing and Writers… Read More »
When I first began writing, I wanted to write, because I wanted to have published something.
In 2000, I started writing, because I had something to say.
In 2000, during Lent I studied the life of Hannah, the mother of Samuel as a model for making sacrifices.
By the autumn, I was working on a novel about Hannah.
I had discovered that her faith journey in ancient Israel had many parallels with the faith journey of a woman in the twenty-first century, despite the three millennia that separated Hannah and me.
In 2004, my book, Hannah’s Journal, placed third in a field of 270 entries in the Christian Writers Guild First Novel Contest.
That book is still unpublished, but my success in the contest invigorated me.
I soon tackled two more novels, which are at present unfinished. The reason is that I continued to develop a better sense of direction as a writer.
In the beginning, I almost dismissed my non-fiction writing as busy work, something to do when I couldn’t think of any stories.
I wrote meditations, prayers, worship guides, articles and teaching plans.
While I struggled with the problems of plot, character development, setting, dialogue and so forth that are part of the craft of a fiction writer, I wrote commentary and background spontaneously, as a natural outgrowth of my research.
One day I had the mind-boggling revelation that it was possible to be a successful writer without selling a novel.
Katherine Harms–writer aboard S/Y No Boundaries Read More »
Of Sword Fights, The Himalayas, And so on… And so on…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, anjuellefloyd.com
Have you ever watched a scene from a movie where two sword fighters are going at it?
And then they begin to move up the stairs, one sword fighter, moving in reverse up the incline of the steps, danger closing in, his back against the wall of conflict?
Remember how you felt? Your chest growing tighter, you engaged with what was happening rooting for one or the other swordsmen.
It goes the same with writing fiction. Read the rest of this entry…
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Of Sword Fights, The Himalayas, And so on… And so on… Read More »
Have you ever watched a scene from a movie where two sword fighters are going at it?
And then they begin to move up the stairs, one sword fighter, moving in reverse up the incline of the steps, danger closing in, his back against the wall of conflict?
Remember how you felt? Your chest growing tighter, you engaged with what was happening rooting for one or the other swordsmen.
It goes the same with writing fiction.
Of Sword Fights, The Himalayas, And so on… And so on… Read More »
“Imitate form, not content. The tendency to imitate form and not content seems to relate directly to talent.”
–Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers
The present world of fiction sees many young writers interweaving the works of previous writers into the young author’s new creation.
I recently read an article about a young German writer who won an award for her work that had used large excerpts of a previous writer’s work in young novelist’s creation.
Of “Android Karenina,” Content, and the Ability to Imagine… Read More »