If you want to be a writer …
Learn the business
Because it is a business. We like to think of ourselves as artists, and our works as gems of creative genius (and why not!) but each gem has to tumble its way along the conveyor belt of the publishing industry before it gets to shine in public. Over the next few months I’m going to be talking to publishers, editors, agents, slush-pile readers, genre writers, proof-readers … all the people who make the publishing industry work, and I’ll share with you their stories, their insights and their advice to writers. I’m going to start with a teacher of writing, Linda Donovan, who quite possibly knows more about the fundamentals of style and good writing than anybody else I’ve ever met. Watch out for her interview tomorrow …
2 Comments
Ellen de Vries
1st August 2006wow ambit -I’ve been trying to crack that one a while now. I’ll go get hold of it from my good local bookseller and read your story and tell you all about what I think of it.
Nice to see you again!
Ellen
Kay Sexton
2nd August 2006Hi Ellen, how are you? Don’t you have a forthcoming poetry collection to tell us about?