Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Authors: Ides of March...

Dear author, please be aware...


"When you are published be prepared for the shock of not finding your book in every bookstore." Bill Adler (Inside publishing, 1982)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.


Preparedness stuff:

  • "Who decides which books get published? Why do some authors earn millions and others peanuts?" Guardian Unlimited Books | Authors | Inside publishing! August, 2001
  • Author writing notes, by Robin Bayne. {extract: READ, READ, READ; REVISE, REVISE, REVISE; RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH; REJECTIONS, REJECTIONS, REJECTIONS; REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS (But that’s a different topic ; )]
  • Reviews From My Desktop

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    P.S. Ides of March in any month

  • 1 comment:

    Robin Bayne said...

    Great blog! Thanks for including my link : )