I have a confession to make. I am not on the cutting edge of anything. I rarely have the latest technology, and I do not usually even know the latest words. I am not one of the cool kids in the great High School of life.
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The musings of someone who picked it up on the streets.
Regional
Why are sales of fiction difficult at best, with about 1 work in 5 actually making money for the publisher? There are many reasons for it. Competition with other forms of entertainment is a very big issue, since a book requires a sturdy commitment; a video from Netflix can be popped into a laptop, watched, and sent back in just 2 hours time.
In the Translation
Many novels are collaborations. The Great Gatsby, for example, proved to be almost too much for F. Scott Fitzgerald, so his editor Max Perkins had to take over much of the heavy lifting. While many nameless people at the publishing house don’t get credit for their contributions to a work, it’s very unusual for that one name running down the spine to be the only one responsible for that final, highly polished work.
Fantasy and Perspective
Imagine what your life must look like from a distance. You spend a lot of time bizzy and bizzier only to flop down from exhaustion at the end of a week. The minor irritations caused by your family or boss or anyone don’t seem anywhere near as important when you try to explain them to someone who isn’t involved. The small joys you receive from the loves of your life aren’t as important to someone else.
Message = Medium
There’s no category in the book world hotter than Teen / Young Adult. Publishers are constantly rushing out titles and bookstores are still expanding the shelf space allotted to them. Part of the allure is that this is a new offering and the audience is expanding. A closer look tells us that this isn’t really all that new for many reasons.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 