It’s a good thing for writers, but is it good for readers?
“Aspiring authors have never had more or better options for self-publishing the manuscripts currently gathering dust in their desk drawers or sleeping in seldom-visited corners of their hard drives.”
Should you post your writing and queries online or not? Here are the arguments on either side by two publishing industry professionals. My advice on this — not that you asked — and in all writing and publishing matters: Listen, but make up your own mind.
Jane Friedman is the publisher and editorial director overseeing Writer’s Digest magazine, Writer’s Digest Books, and the Writer’s Market series. She says: Stop Being Afraid of Posting Your Work Online.
Chuck Sambuchino is an editor for Writer’s Digest Books and two annual resource books: Guide to Literary Agents, as well as Screenwriter’s & Playwright’s Market. He says: Be (Slightly) Afraid of Posting Your Work Online.
“…memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family. Like a drunken guest at a wedding, it is constantly mortifying its soberer relatives philosophy, history, literary fiction—spilling family secrets, embarrassing old friends—motivated, it would seem, by an overpowering need to be the center of attention.” via The New Yorker.
MAD about Words
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Mary Ann de Stefano
Writer, editor, writing coach. Cool, clear-eyed, seeker of wisdom and truth. I believe in you.
