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January 9, 2007
Whoops: According to Big Bad Book Blog, shotgun publication is a bad thing:
"Rushing a book to market without understanding all the consequences of your decision is about as bright as marrying someone you meet in Las Vegas after a fifteen-hour drinking binge. Even if the reasons behind the rush seem legitimate, beware of the beer-goggle effect—your book won’t look nearly as attractive when it comes off the press as it does in your head when you’re deciding to skip vital steps in the publication process." But the funny thing is, we didn't skip any vital steps. A big part of that is I had already been working on Blood & Volume as my master's thesis for a year and a half before I even had the contract, and I tend to write fast, so doing a complete rewrite over the summer wasn't as daunting to me as it may have been to other people.
So the linked post is an interesting and informative read, but it's sort of a cookie cutter dictate for something as diverse as the crop of 30,000 books that come out each year.Labels: bloodandvolume, writing
Posted at 5:21 PM
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