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Harper Lee’s sequel for To Kill a Mockingbird broke some first day sales records this week.
In other news, Paul Dale Anderson tells writers how they can figure out what time of writer they are. Read more about these topics as well as others on this week’s Publishing News Roundup series below:
Transparency and The Muse
Last week I was writing my blog from my writing retreat where I wrestled with The Muse… the Manuscript and the madness of Editing while writing while analysing three books. Next time I will schedule my time better… (cue manic laughter.) This week back inside the madness of school holidays, I’ve finally wrestled the computer out of the kids hands and can concentrate on getting back up to speed with what is happening in the publishing world.
Today Harper Lee broke some records on First Day sales of a book. Her sequel,
Go Set A Watchman which was really her first book which was then rewritten to be
How To Kill A Mockingbird has got writers thinking about their own literary estates… should bad first books see the light of day even when you are famous… publishers just after the money… or this
great post from Stephen Pressfield on the amazingness of Lee’s editor and Lee herself that she could flip this book on its head and write HTKAM from it.
Writers are beginning to report on what hit (if any) they are taking with the Amazon pay per page read.
Molly Greene talks about her stats and what has changed. It is a great service to the writing community to show the money side of your business… and I appreciate the willingness of authors who do this. We all learn and it contributes to understanding and the need for the industry to be transparent….
Which leads to a timely and thoughtfilled post from Kristine Rusch on
Transparency and the battles on the horizon. Take the time to read this. She covers the Authors Guild call for the DOJ to investigate Amazon (again????) understanding the writing business and how the music industry battles are preparing the way ahead of us…
The Guardian thinks the
pseudonyms are on their way out… we should be able to stand or fall with our own names. I find myself automatically thinking that initials mean a female author.
Book Riot has written a great blog post on the overuse and
abuse of The Love Triangle. This device seems to be exclusive to the Young Adult market. Book Riot calls it out as sloppy unrealistic plotting (the teen in this house was agreeing… Not Real Life)
In the Craft Section,
In the Marketing Section,
Website of the Week
Digital Book World is a website that looks at the big picture of digital publishing. Authors often forget that Digital Publishing covers the whole spectrum of words online. This week DBW have been running a series on
the future of publishing. Yes it is aimed at publishers but authors should run their eyes over these sorts of articles to keep themselves informed of what might be coming up behind them.
To Finish,
maureen
@craicer
About Maureen Crisp
Maureen Crisp has been writing her weekly publishing roundups for over seven years. She is a traditionally published children's author as well as indie-published. She lives in New Zealand and is heading the team organising the 4th National Conference of Children's Writers and Illustrators. She is currently trying her hand at writing a children’s book series if she can drag herself away from forever tweaking her Mars novel or obsessing over space.