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Publishing Quotes
"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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"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 was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
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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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"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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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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"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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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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"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."
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"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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