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"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
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"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
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"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics."
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"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics."
Publishing
"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
Business
"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
Publishing
"Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule."
Books
"We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that."
Books
"The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
Publishing
"I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text."
Time
"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
Publishing
"It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan."
Mistake
"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."
Technology
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