If you heard that you had orders for 50,000 books, would you then leap up and tell your publisher No way, that's too big of a risk? Not if you were sane.
I love the way this and the paragraphs that follow put this into sane perspective. Not, of course, that I have novels out there to worry about, much less a novel-writing career. But I wouldn't've thought of it that way, and now I know to do so. :-)
At a tangent--how guilty should I feel about buying used/bargain/remainder books? :-] I just came home with a couple tonight, including a fantasy novel. And I thought of your posts and wondered, where do all these "bargain" books at Hastings come from? I do buy new books semi-regularly, and I get to sample more authors/books for less $$ this way. But am I doing harm? Now I wonder. :-/
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branchandroot
Perspectives
Date: 2004-08-05 10:40 pm (UTC)I love the way this and the paragraphs that follow put this into sane perspective. Not, of course, that I have novels out there to worry about, much less a novel-writing career. But I wouldn't've thought of it that way, and now I know to do so. :-)
At a tangent--how guilty should I feel about buying used/bargain/remainder books? :-] I just came home with a couple tonight, including a fantasy novel. And I thought of your posts and wondered, where do all these "bargain" books at Hastings come from? I do buy new books semi-regularly, and I get to sample more authors/books for less $$ this way. But am I doing harm? Now I wonder. :-/