literary and publishing news of interest
Writing by Jana on Friday, 18 of July , 2008 at 7:47 am
An interesting interview with L. Lee Lowe, a blogging novelist whose first book, a young adult fantasy novel titled Mortal Ghost, was serialized via blog last year and is still a popular download.
Her second novel, Corvus, will be serialized this fall. Lee runs no ads on her site and has made no money off of this venture…yet, but it will be interesting to see where it goes. A few bloggers have been picked up for publication over the years, though the ones that seem to stand out in my mind are the more controversial ones (Girl with a one-track mind) or humourous (Stuff White People Like or The Phat Free.) I don’t believe this is the easiest road to publication, but I don’t think anyone actually starts up a blog and puts that kind of effort into it with the expectation of it being noticed by an editor or agent.
Nathan Bransford blogs about HarperStudio, in his Imprint of the Future series; which, much like Vanguard Press and Jonathan Karp’s Imprint 12, is another imprint to look closely at. I’m not qualified to say if these are sound business models or not. But they sure do sound that way, and more so, I respect them for actually doing something that seems in the best interest of publishing, their authors, and literature in general. These are not book mills, and this can only bode well for authors now and in the future as publishing slowly changes.
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