Literary Agents are destroying everything!!!
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianVia OTF_wank: The Talent Killers: How Literary Agents are Destroying Literature and What Publishers Can Do to Stop Them. Or, a lot of BAAAAWWWWW and WEEEOOOO.
The evil, evil literary agents are obsessed with books that people will pay money for, and avoid books that they don't think people will want to buy. Shocking...
However, I think the ones really to blame are..... readers! Readers are the reason they're publishing so much vampire fiction and fantasy novels and mystery-thrillers.
This comment is also very perceptive: it's the bookstores which don't make it possible for an author to slowly build up an audience, because they return books so relentlessly.
The evil, evil literary agents are obsessed with books that people will pay money for, and avoid books that they don't think people will want to buy. Shocking...
However, I think the ones really to blame are..... readers! Readers are the reason they're publishing so much vampire fiction and fantasy novels and mystery-thrillers.
This comment is also very perceptive: it's the bookstores which don't make it possible for an author to slowly build up an audience, because they return books so relentlessly.
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Date: 2009-04-18 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-18 04:38 am (UTC)I still have not bothered to read the original post (though I am sure I have the gist of it), but at some point I think NB (now a celebrity! To myself, since it only matters when I become aware of it!) called in some reinforcements in the form of editors/publishers in order to inject some value into the whole thing, so overall this nonsense has been a good deal, I think. XD