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November 07, 2004
Realism
As an antidote to the Columbia Journalism Review victim-fest on first-time authors which I wrote about recently, the current Poets & Writers magazine has an article by M.J. Rose on what new writers can actually do to help promote their books. It’s not available online, but here’s a quick quote:
“As authors, we can write and edit our own career scripts. We can choose to be optimists or pessimists, curmudgeons or spoiled brats. We can harbor huge expectations or no expectations. Perhaps the best choice is to be a realist.”
Sounds sensible to me, and far more helpful than shaking your fists at the publishing world.
Posted by Rachel at November 7, 2004 10:24 PM
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