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Monday, August 29, 2005



Publishing article

Here is an interesting article on how the publishing industry foster too many unjustified hopes of getting published. According to Mr. Clare (a first-time novelist, BTW), everyone doesn't have a novel in them.

"Curiously unsatisfied with the idea that being a successful novelist requires the ability to write books that a consistently large number of people are prepared to buy, jaded scribblers search instead for an explanation that will permit them to retreat with their pride and delusions intact. As W Somerset Maugham put it: "I have never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull."

Read the full article by Tim Clare at
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1556038,00.html

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