“It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.” KnowsWantBehindsPublishersBest WorkBehind YouReally Inspiring Author:Eric Wight
“I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.” ThinkingWantYearsDifferentPlayMemoirAgentsPublishersPublishPrintedLiterary Agents Author:Natalie Merchant
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.” PeopleSaidCountryDreamHouseSpeakSocialJusticeSilenceCasesSeeingExampleDirectorsNewsSocial JusticeSilentMeritAgencyOfficialsInterviewsOnlineScarePublishingPublishersGallerySpeaks OutComplacentFree CountryOutreachPublishing House Author:Leila Fadel
“Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.” WellsBookWantedFormDecisionWindThese DaysPrintPublishersUpdatesPrint Books Author:Bob Colacello
“My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G.I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.” YearsKindMadeStillsBookIdeasShowsWantedHouseForceDealsBrotherHotMeetingsWho I AmAgentsNo IdeaWheelsPublishersBrooksIvySpoofAndy Griffith ShowBrooks Brothers Author:Mark McNairy
“People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.” PeopleKindBookLinesBehindsWindowPhonesReceivingPublishersPhone Calls Author:Salman Rushdie
“Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director.” DoeArtHelpingFilmDesignDirectorsPressesProductionsProducersDigitalPublishersPublicityBrowsAussiesMagsArt Director Author:Deborah Smith
“What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.” NeedsStoriesBigsRunningSupportSeriesShort StoryPublishers Author:Nicholas Royle
“Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.” GivingLittlesPersonsMadeBookCircumstancesMachinesMilesPublishersMiles AwayArses Author:Nicholas Royle
“I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.” PeopleTalkingMillionsFourThousandHundredBritainSixtyPublishers Author:John Gimlette
“I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.” PeopleWantMy OwnWonderfulFineGenrePublishers Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.” WorldImportantBookFictionFourInternationalObviousRegionsShyPublishersMarketplace Author:David Edelstein
“Think of it more as publishing instead of marketing.Be authentic as a publisher and create content that helps you connect to everyone else...because they're already connected.” ThinkingHelpingSuccessfulMarketingConnectedPublishingPublishers Author:Mitch Joel
“Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.” IfsGivingWritingLongStoriesGamesReaderSmellDescriptionSongwritingPublishersThumbsNausea Author:Dean Koontz
“And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did.” NeedsWritingMeanSaidSchoolEnjoyStyleMassHigh SchoolCriticsRelateRevolutionaryPublishersSchool Education Author:Lesley M. M. Blume
“I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.” KnowsI CanJudgingGoes OnLuckyChinesePublishersTranslationsDutchThai Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and you're writing it, and you're ingesting it, sometimes a single word just comes up over and over and over again. And if you're trying to capture the essence of what it is you're trying to tell, you don't have a whole lot of space.” IfsWritingTryingYearsTwoBookSometimesWholeReadingSpaceEssenceCome UpTitlesTwo YearsMarchCapturePublishersSingle Word Author:Andrew Aydin
“I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsBookHardDoneRememberPayTenPublishersUndone Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.” PeopleWantNeedsStillsBookHandsFiveStagePublishersRevision Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.” PeopleWayTryingSellsCrapPublishersGalleryRap Music Author:Scott McClanahan
“I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.” PeopleIfsUseCareSongInspireRight NowDon't CareAcceptedI Don't CarePublishersSigning Off Author:Sammy Hagar
“You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.” KnowsWantBookKnow HowPublishersPublish Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.” RealEasierSellsPressesGreedListsChainsPublishersPublishReal WorkBlockbusterBooksellers Author:W. P. Kinsella
“In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).” BookProblemLastsNew YorkRevolutionStrategyChinaDestroyedChineseRevolutionaryPublishersPioneersFactionsChinese Revolution Author:Leon Trotsky
“Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.” KnowsMeanSelfSituationOffersFewerPublishersPublishAesthetics Author:Eden Robinson
“The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.” ThinkingTryingDifferentStatesChallengesDoorsFeetAmountCompetitionSpotsRangePublishersFrustratingAestheticsStaggering Author:Eden Robinson
“Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.” IfsStoriesRomanceFantasyMysterySeriousAgentsPublishers Author:Eden Robinson
“My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.” FeelsCharacterStoriesVoiceReaderCreatingLoyalPublishers Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.” I CanBookWholeAsksImaginePublishers Author:Frederick Busch
“This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.” YearsTwoHomeFindingsEncouragementFlamesTwo YearsTouchingStablePublishersPublication Author:Paul Kane
“I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsLongBookFactsMightJobsUniverseSpeakStandardsExcitedPublishersIrrelevantPublishPlausibleBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.” EffortPublishersInnovativeQuirks Author:Theodora Goss
“I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].” KnowsFeelsLooksBookNextProcessStageFinishedPublishers Author:Parker Posey
“We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.” PeopleNeedsWritingWeekGlancesPublishersManuscripts Author:Max Lucado
“I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.” DifferentTrackMagazinesEditorsPublishersSnapsFolders Author:William Gurstelle
“I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.” ThinkingBelieveMatterI BelieveMembersVoteBoardsPublishersEditorials Author:Gene Weingarten
“My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and she's fiercely independent, and you know this book was a hard sell. No one wanted to buy this book. But she did, and so it's paid off for her, I hope.” KnowsYearsBookHardWantedLastsEnergyPaidIndependentSellsPressesBritishLast YearPublishersPaid Off Author:Paul Beatty
“The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.” IfsDifferentDressesPublishersDressingsDiplomaticDressing UpDisservicePioneering Author:Terry Pratchett
“Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.” EnoughWantedFoundWonderfulPressesBillionsAgentsPermanentFortunateRejectionPublishersMatched Author:Liza Campbell
“The one difference between comics and, say, cinema or prose, is that you've only got so many pages, and publishers will work to a set page count. So you have to work out how many pages you actually have and how much to allow for each story.” StoriesDifferencesPagesWork OutCinemaProsePublishers Author:Leah Moore
“In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.” KnowsBookCountryIndividualCartoonPublishersPoland Author:Jodi Picoult
“What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.” KindBookWantedAskingWorriedSeptemberPublishersAlexOctoberAttorneyAsking QuestionsHaley Author:Manning Marable
“From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.” IfsWayWantGivingWritingTwoHelpingUseActionWantedFightingWorrySceneWasteGive MeDialogueIf I CouldWasting TimeWant MePublishers1960sSyllablesCharacterization Author:Stan Lee
“The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.” ThinkingTryingChallengesPayReaderNew ThingsPublishersTestingTrying New Things Author:Maria Rodale
“Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.” WantWellsMeanBookEndsReadingQualityCompanyTechnologyEconomyRightsAmountCostModelsFairsManagementLibraryWideVarietyRangeGenerousReasonableDigitalDevicesQuantityUsersPublishersFlexibleCompensationBook ReadingHigh QualityHardwareBusiness ModelsVendors Author:Tom Peters
“I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.” LittlesGroupsMetsEntrepreneurFollowingPublishers Author:Simon Sinek
“We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."” SaidBookWrittenCoupleRaysPublishersMcdonalds Author:Jeremy Renner
“Post-publication I have been surprised at the limited resources publishers have to promote books. I certainly knew that being a new author, I would have to do a lot of self-promoting, but it really has surprised me just how much I have had to do myself to make sure the books get into the hands of young people.” PeopleHas BeensBookSelfHandsYoungResourcesPostsPublishersPromotingPublicationLimited Resources Author:Renee Watson
“I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline they're just kidding for the most part. I don't know what they do with it, it's like you send them your book and they just hold it in their hands for like six months and I don't know why, and you realize you probably had more time.” ThinkingKnowsGivingYearsBookHandsRealizingStupidLike YouMonthsSixI've LearnedMore TimePublishersSix MonthsDeadlineJust Kids Author:Dave Barry