tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post1922616107078668795..comments2023-12-19T09:50:44.504-08:00Comments on Write First, Clean Later: Hope for All WritersL.J. Sellershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10213491074676394406noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-63570786016229404572010-11-25T20:37:29.426-08:002010-11-25T20:37:29.426-08:00Screenwriter William Goldman is famous for saying ...<i>Screenwriter William Goldman is famous for saying “nobody knows anything” about the people running Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Recent book discussion chatter about one of the Edgar winners leads me to think this is true of the publishing industry as well.</i><br /><br />Thanks! You've articulated something I've thought for ages.<br /><br />No one knows anything in this business. Who knows what book will become the next bestseller? No one can predict that. Who knows what works or what doesn't? Even the so-called marketing experts can't explain why one badly written book can do so well, while another better one does worse (even with all other things being equal).<br /><br />There always seems to be an X factor when it comes to creative products like books and movies.<br /><br />Success in writing simply can't be reduced to a simple formula. Boy, do I wish it were that easy.<br /><br />I do think that hard work, marketing and networking can help make an author's luck.Debbihttp://midlistlife.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-81787434043641840372010-02-13T13:42:15.641-08:002010-02-13T13:42:15.641-08:00I love the hope that this post gives. Thanks for ...I love the hope that this post gives. Thanks for sharing.D.S. Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044779501609588118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-25068244507169034472009-11-21T07:26:57.284-08:002009-11-21T07:26:57.284-08:00Could anyone tell me if I have any potential for w...Could anyone tell me if I have any potential for writing? I'm an undergrad and I hope to write a book before I'm 30. Here are some (old) samples: (at my blog)<br />natashamukhtar.blogspot.comNatashahttp://natashamukhtar.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-47102791957290237702009-05-05T14:00:00.000-07:002009-05-05T14:00:00.000-07:00Like many, I do not pay much attention to awards o...Like many, I do not pay much attention to awards or even critics outside of reader reviews where the real meat and potatoes of critiqing will be found. How many times have I read a great book by an establsihed author only to buy the next two to be duds and not finish reading them. Again, I look for reader reviews to help my find a decent read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-63926086947750711162009-05-04T10:26:00.000-07:002009-05-04T10:26:00.000-07:00I haven't read the book, so just a comment on the ...I haven't read the book, so just a comment on the Edgars. As mystified as the results often leave me, at least there is some pretense to evaluation in the Edgar Award process. The books are judged by a jury of five peers.<br /><br />That said, impossible to separate the politics from the process. Strive they ever so diligently to be free of prejudice, people will be subject to outside influences.Dana Stabenowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493173907957654118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-50395799247874760612009-05-04T10:09:00.000-07:002009-05-04T10:09:00.000-07:00I don't value awards, but the overall point is cor...I don't value awards, but the overall point is correct. I've seen many best-selling works that I couldn't read at all. While books I consider absolutely excellent languish with few readers.Mike Canehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396654716615965650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527790096547842654.post-83133139862651433762009-05-03T23:02:00.000-07:002009-05-03T23:02:00.000-07:00The Stephen King Effect, maybe?
Meg Gardiner is a...The Stephen King Effect, maybe?<br /><br />Meg Gardiner is an American living in Great Britain who was first published there because American publishers took no interest in her work. Stephen King "discovered" her because they share the same publisher, read her book, and shouted out her name from the pages of Entertainment Weekly. After that, American publishers scrambled to publish her previous half-dozen books.<br /><br />http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20011653,00.html<br /><br />Would China Lake (first book first published in 2002) gotten published in the U.S. and still win an Edgar without Stephen King's endorsement? Maybe, maybe not.C.D. Reimerhttp://www.cdreimer.comnoreply@blogger.com