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ALEX IRVINE ON HOW NOT TO GET JERKED WHILE WRITING TIE-IN NOVELS (MF GALAXY 168)
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:29:56
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Synopsis
There is an infinite number of ways not to have a successful writing career, but not that many ways to have one. You can write your own original novels and if you're in the luckiest one percent, you'll find editors who understand and love what you're doing, and who work with publicists who know how to promote your work with opinion-leaders who'll also love your work. Your publisher will work with distributors who'll get your books into the bookstores where staff hand-sell your work. If you're less lucky, you'll end up like 98 percent of writers, whose books get a sliver of shelf-space for three months and die in the discount bin or get pulped. But there's another lucky one percent. And when I say lucky, I don't mean they're not hard-working, because as you're about to hear from today's guest, hard-working in this case could mean writing six books in one year, and one book in eleven days. And by lucky, I also don't mean devoid of skill and artistry, because today's guest has won numerous awards proving he has