The career novelist
Strategy session III: managing success rights to their clients' books. That is just what happened in 1990 when HarperCollins pro ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST You do not hear about backlist selling much except in the mys- tery field, where the only strategy that work ...
Strategy session III: managing success on the list, and when there is a chance of that happening—baby, watch out. People get agg ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST The form that is sent out became the focus of a lawsuit brought by author William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist ...
Strategy session III: managing success are negotiated into deals, some agents and authors these days are choosing Publisher's We ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST better—terms offered to you by someone else. If they "top," then you are stuck. So what can you do? The safe ...
Strategy session III: managing success can find that these "editors" do not have time to work properly on their authors' manuscr ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST artists who were members of the Royal Academy, playwrights who had won the London Critics' Award, and poets ...
19 CHAPTER Staying Alive in the Land of the Giants MEGA-MERGERS IT IS A BALMY SATURDAY. YOU ARE HAVING A BARBECUE IN YOUR backya ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST History shows that the aftermath of these mergers can be devas- tating. One day in 1990, the enormous U.K. p ...
Staying alive in the land of the giants lishing, media, or entertainment conglomerate. Further, the con- glomerate is as likely ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Baen-. Viacom (via its distributor Pocket Books) Bantam/Spectra-. Bertelsmann DAW: Pearson (via Penguin USA) ...
Staying alive in the land of the giants Time Warner makes a mint. Sports Illustrated publishes the magazine and licenses the cal ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Session III), but even that is not so bad. At least the copyright is still held by the author. The other sav ...
Staying alive in the land of the giants tors who, one hopes, will stay in place. Measuring the health of a publisher can be tric ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST is what happened at Random House. No bloodbath ensued. (Not among the editorial staff, anyway, but the war t ...
20 CHAPTER The Economy and Publishing BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES AN AGENT NEEDS NERVES OF STEEL, AND LUCKILY I DO NOT easily panic. ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST In short, are there strategies for surviving storms in the econo- my? STORM WARNINGS As a career novelist yo ...
The economy and publishing Now, what of publishing? The first point to grasp is that publish- ing swings wider in either directi ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST back until new plant capacity comes on-line late in the decade. That is squeezing publishers' profit margins ...
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