Publishing is hard

Another Repost from the Bsky beast.

Can commercial publishers really be that vapid? Yes, yes they can. Built on image and numbers.

Yet this is business and naturalising of all values so that the show must go on.

It's all this cartoonish villainy that I can be cynical about, yet again. All this mcdonalidifcation it does is part of all the dysfunctional business models that will boom and bust through fads, then lay-offs.

Any capitalistic construct, such as serialisation and franchising, will have a series of hoops, and a platform.

Yeah, a measure of salesmanship, not of contribution.

Daniel Abraham

‪@abraham.bsky.social‬

This is accurate. Writing is a form of art. Publishing is a form of gambling.

‪Delilah S. Dawson‬ ‪@delilahsdawson.bsky.social‬

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Hot Publishing Take: You can write an A+ book, but unless it gets huge publisher support or gets randomly lucky, it won't be seen as successful. Publisher support is a $ decision you can't impact; luck depends on viral social media/celebrity endorsement. All we can do is keep writing and hope.

October 10, 2024 at 6:01 PM