This blog entry is in response to Eric’s recent report on book marketing as he guest-blogged for Nathan Bransford. I highly recommend checking it out Eric’s entry here, it’s an incredible and in-depth look at a dying process. If only someone had been around to perform a study of dinosaur behavior just prior to the Yucatan impactor! That also would have been a timely preservation of something doomed to extinction. I’ll be very surprised if publishers are buying back books twenty years from now the same way they’ve been doing…
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How Writing Changes One’s Reading
Reading hasn’t been the same since I started writing full-length novels. With two manuscripts written (one of them still in rough draft), I’ve had a difficult time returning to reading. Everything just looks different on the page. One of the things I’ve become painfully aware of is the lack of outlining most authors do. I’d be surprised if half of them even know where the story’s going. I used to think books that had uneven pacing, or resorted to deus ex machina solutions, were the product of poor initial ideas……