28 July 2015 - What's new
28 July 2015
- 'According to some sources, the audiobook market is growing rapidly. Orion audio publisher Pandora White called the sector "the fastest-growing in publishing" and Booktrack is growing exponentially, but is the quality of the recordings being sacrificed in order to achieve the lowest price? The download has injected new life into a rather quiet corner of the book world, so what are the issues?' News Review
- ‘The prize thing was absolutely wonderful. It brings you readers and that's the thing you want with every bone in your body but - how to say this without sounding churlish? - I'm very aware that people will have been saying, "Huh? Really? when it won prizes, so I don't take it as a sign that I've got there yet. I'm still working out how to write books. I need more time...' Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers and the forthcoming The Wolf Wilder, in the Bookseller, provides this week's Comment.
- Do you want to self-publish your work? WritersServices offers a suite of services which help writers get their work into shape before they self-publish. Services for Self-publishers.
- The USP of WritersServices' Copy editing service is that we send your edited manuscript back to you in two versions - at no extra cost - one showing track changes, so you can see what has been changed, and one with the changes accepted, to use for the printer.
- Our links this week: how about this for a dramatic headline? The ghostwriter, the secret plot and a ‘grave-robbing' Stieg Larsson sequel | Books | The Guardian; every so often, it's kind of instructive to look around at other new media and see how their problems compare to good ol' e-books', In a digital world, movies and books face different and similar problems « TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics; and it's becoming hard for crime-writers to keep up with advances in forensic medicine, Crime writers are the victims as Sherlock's too slow for forensics - Telegraph.
- Some more links: are Amazon actually getting ahead of publishers in terms of helping authors? Another wake-up call from Amazon as they serve author interests better than publishers have - The Shatzkin Files The Shatzkin Files; a headline you don't expect, Is Baby Boomer Lit the Next Hot Genre? - Publishing Perspectives; and an interesting angle as academic publishing is reduced to scale by the internet giants, Thinking about Internet Scale | The Scholarly Kitchen.
- Our series of six articles on writing in different categories covers a wide range of genre writing - Crime, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Romance, Non-fiction, Historical fiction and Memoir and Autobiography. So we've probably got the the genre you are interested in covered.
- 'Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.' Ed Doctorow in our Writers' Quotes.
- And the June Magazine is ready!
