Strategy session II: midcareer damage control
Prevention-.
- Revise novel
- Take time marketing
- Get good agent
- Find enthusiastic editor
- Find stable editor
- Tell publisher career plan
- Suggest cover approaches to art director
- Make friends with publicist
- Self-promote
Problem Solving:
- Follow editor to new house, or...
- Stay put, but "resell" novel in-house
- Seek realistic next advance, or...
- Push for high new advance
- Take time out to write Great American Novel, or.
- Stay the course
- Avoid envy, or...
- Take delight in self-pity
Extreme Remedies-.
- Switch genres
- Adopt pseudonym
- Wait a while
- Write a bigger book
- Switch formats
- Switch publishers
- Switch agents
- Relax
- Have fun
- Manage a Wal-Mart
