Re: Re: consequences of shift to ebooks

On Jan 8, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Tony Burton wrote:

> Dang, Ed... that was great.  You crack me up.
>
> Sure there are some authors with established reputations who can do  
> that, but I'd be
> willing to bet that in this dog-eat-dingo world of present day  
> publishing, it sure ain't the
> norm.

Strangely enough, most of the midlist authors I know sell novels on  
proposal. Now granted, this is an "on spec" sort of thing where they  
sell the proposal and the editor says "go ahead" but then still has  
the right to refuse to publish the book whereupon the author is  
contractually bound to come up with another novel proposal and write  
another novel (they can sell the first, refused book to another  
publisher).

Once you sell your first novel, it is pretty much a LOT easier to sell  
the others without actually writing each one first.

dej

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