Pointing to Scalzifeed

[msagara]

John Scalzi is at it again. His tongue-and-cheek categorization of "real world" deals, a poke at Publishers Lunch (which impressed me in large part because I confess I've read exactly 2 paragraphs of Publishers Lunch; it's eye-glazingly boring, and transmits not a lot of useful information. Well, to be fair, not a lot in the paragraphs that I managed to take in the single time I tried) seems to have caused a bit of annoyance.

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/archives/001135.html

Scalzi says some of what I've said here, but in more concentrated form, and with his usual dollop of wit & observation.

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Pub Lunch is useful for those who work in publishing, but I'd never call it required reading for aspiring writers. I'm astonished anyone outside the industry would bother to subscribe to it.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

What Lunch does do is show you which agents are selling whose books to whom, and who's getting six figures for them. I find that rather interesting.