“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.” IfsThinkingHardStoriesUseOpportunitySocialDealsTechnologyMediaSocial MediaTraditionalPublishersNew TechnologyProactive Author:Ian Rankin
“I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."” PeopleShouldWritingFirstsLongWould BeWantedSongDealsLong TimeDecidedSingersPublishingPublishersSessionVocalDemos Author:Solange Knowles
“As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.” PeopleKnowsYearsBookPoliticalFightingDealsCoupleCrapPublishersPublicists Author:Robert Greene
“An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.” WayArtistEnjoySimpleDealsPureHumbleAcceptedEditorsContractsPublishersGalaxyBe HumbleCastesInsistingCaste System Author:Jack Kirby
“The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.” PeopleFormYoungArtistIndividualInterestLevelsDealsHigherTaxesFinancialBusinessmanLowestPublishersLaddersHigher LevelAccountantsYoung Artists Author:Jack Kirby
“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.” GivingDoeCharacterActorsDealsRightsImagineTelevisionDemandAgreeSellsNewspapersIncomeAgentsNovelistsMovieSplitsOwnershipPublishersLunaticManuscriptsCartoonistSyndicateLiterary Agents Author:Bill Watterson