I finally finished reading Brad Meltzer’s The Book of Fate last night, which I think I’ve been working on for about a month.
There’s a pretty interesting blog over on Publishers Weekly about SciFi and Fantasy authors being marketed as teen fiction, and vice versa. The blogger makes a pretty good point that in this regard, buying books on the internet has a clear advantage, as you can search for “YA fiction,” or “SciFi”, or the author’s name, and find everything they write, not just what’s shelved in one spot in a bricks and mortar bookstore.
“What would you expect or hope to see on a writer’s Web site, especially a new writer who might not have books or articles to promote? You mentioned not wanting to see information about agents and editors who’ve been queried and have rejected the writer’s work. What else do you not want to see?”
What’s the best (i.e. the worst and/or funniestand/) reasons you’ve heard or heard about for a book being rejected?
My inbox seems to be behaving today — i.e. not too many messages coming in stamped “URGENT!” — so I’ve decided to take the rest of the day as a reading day.
