Review: 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published…
Readers of Slushpile know how much I enjoyed Pat Walsh’s 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might, but I also reviewed it for PopMatters. Check out the full book review here. My one criticism is that damned title. Geez, I get carpal tunnel every time I…
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AJ Jacobs signed a deal with editor Geoff Kloske at Simon & Schuster for a book called The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Obey the Bible as Literally as Possible. Sloan Harris at ICM was the agent involved in the deal, reported to be worth between a quarter of a million…
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Most how-to-publish books are garbage. I’ve mentioned one or two that I like but the vast majority of them provide nothing more in-depth than “target the publishers you submit your work to… don’t submit your horror gorefest about alien foot fungus to Harlequin Romances” and so-called advice like that. I’ve got a shelf full of…
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I’m happy to say that Publishers Lunch is reporting a deal that involves two of our very favorite people. Will Christopher Baer, author of Kiss Me, Judas and others sold three new books of “existential violence and intensity” to one of our favorite editors, Jason Wood at MacAdam/Cage. Too often, I look at the news…
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