tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post112436187120420838..comments2024-03-28T13:18:28.238+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Five tips to avoiding total disasterMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-794505696838102592020-01-27T06:54:07.683+00:002020-01-27T06:54:07.683+00:00This article is damn good. And the information is ...This article is damn good. And the information is well informative. Thanks for sharing this. We feel proud to offer the best <a href="https://www.essaycorp.com/services/assignment-help" rel="nofollow">online assignment help</a> services to the students. We are dedicated to provide top <a href="https://www.essaycorp.com/medical-science-assignment-help" rel="nofollow">Medical Science Assignment Help</a> at very cheap prices. Mostly students nowadays demand <a href="https://www.essaycorp.com/project-management-assignment-help" rel="nofollow">project management assignment help</a> from experts. We are considered one of the top <a href="https://www.essaycorp.com/country/australia" rel="nofollow">assignment help in Australia</a>.NeedEssayHelphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507558539614379280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1124460543123447892005-08-19T15:09:00.000+01:002005-08-19T15:09:00.000+01:00Oh God.All aspiring novelists please listen, and l...Oh God.<BR/><BR/>All aspiring novelists please listen, and listen carefully.<BR/><BR/>Kris Saknussemm is a professional writer (and a painter and sculptor). His work has appeared in many prestigious publications, he has won literary awards in Australia and America, and has done public readings of his work over more than twenty years. <I>And this is how he has come to have a novel published.</I><BR/><BR/>His achievements are no doubt greatly to his credit, but that’s not the point. His advice may be excellent for the publishable classes (celebs, the connected, and those with a marketable CV). For the rest of us, it is quite quite worthless.<BR/><BR/>I know of no literary insider who is prepared to admit it openly, but the fact is that publishers have no interest in the work of the unpublishable classes. On the basis of answers to a questionnaire which I submitted a few years ago to a dozen major UK fiction publishers I concluded that, for every 4000 novels submitted by said classes to genuine publishers, 3999 were rejected. And things have probably got worse since then.<BR/><BR/>In response to Mr Saknussemm, here are my five tips for prospective novelists. Choose any one, and don’t start writing till you’re established.<BR/><BR/>First Tip. Become a celeb. The writing will be done for you. (This is the only way to <I>guarantee</I> success.)<BR/><BR/>Tip #2. Make a name in journalism. You’d be surprised how many novelists start this way.<BR/><BR/>Tip #3. Join a publishing house. Make a favourable impression on the people who matter.<BR/><BR/>Tip #4. Make social connections with significant people in the literary world.<BR/><BR/>Tip #5. Get something interesting on your CV – e.g. become a hit-man, or the victim of hideous persecution. Publishers will prefer you to begin with non-fiction, but you might well become a novelist on the strength of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com