Friday, October 06, 2006

How to annoy and influence (not in a good way) editors

I stopped reading Gawker regularly several months ago, so I have Publishers Marketplace to thank for this link: a regular Gawker series, Unsolicited, featuring real whining from real editors about the authors (and especially would-be authors) who bug them.

Speaking of Publishers Marketplace, here are the deals for debut fiction so far this month:

Thirtysomethings in New York City! Endangered adolescents! and a book group-ready read about "heroines from literature." Interesting that there are no notes about how much these deals were for -- a "nice deal" or "good deal" and so on, in the P.M. nomenclature. Let's assume they were all acquired for under $50K.

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

I definitely think if money isn't mentioned, then money is relatively small.

Mark Pritchard said...

I think so too, though one deal is described as a "pre-empt," which I believe means the publisher bought the book before the author's agent had a chance to show it to others.