bombshell SBD
Not very clever today and the rant is familiar to anyone who's spent more than ten minutes paying attention to the book business.
Time to say adios to bombshell! Byeeee! You and Flipside and Precious Gems and Candlelight are all up in category heaven now. Y'all are up there, perhaps looking over the lists of reason given for your failure. My bet is that the actual stories aren't really on the first page.
Yet another casualty of the quest for a Consistent Predictable Product that'll attract the dollars--jumping on the trends du jour.
It's enough to make one wish to be a scientist or something--or some sort of profession that builds on what came before rather than just produces random chaotic surges to attract the market herd.
About now I take back everything I ever thought or said about literary fiction. Yes, I know bottom lines are involved with those publishers and that they're probably all the same big monster publisher umbrella operating under many, many names, all with similar corporate rule-books.
Please leave me the tiny fantasy there's a difference and that those literary fiction types tolerate more risk. Thank you.
Time to say adios to bombshell! Byeeee! You and Flipside and Precious Gems and Candlelight are all up in category heaven now. Y'all are up there, perhaps looking over the lists of reason given for your failure. My bet is that the actual stories aren't really on the first page.
Yet another casualty of the quest for a Consistent Predictable Product that'll attract the dollars--jumping on the trends du jour.
It's enough to make one wish to be a scientist or something--or some sort of profession that builds on what came before rather than just produces random chaotic surges to attract the market herd.
About now I take back everything I ever thought or said about literary fiction. Yes, I know bottom lines are involved with those publishers and that they're probably all the same big monster publisher umbrella operating under many, many names, all with similar corporate rule-books.
Please leave me the tiny fantasy there's a difference and that those literary fiction types tolerate more risk. Thank you.
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