tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post113153405512888111..comments2024-03-28T13:18:28.238+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Another day, another nameMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1131712446095728432005-11-11T12:34:00.000+00:002005-11-11T12:34:00.000+00:00Your comments are fair and perceptive. Novelists d...Your comments are fair and perceptive. Novelists do not enter the publishing industry for business reasons. Only people with enough passion and stamina can face it so they're in it for emotional reasons as you rightly point out. However, I disagree with the randomness of getting published. Certainly luck is involved but novelists wanting to get published must write a good enough book and then get it in front of the right people in an appropriate manner. The 'slush pile' still exisits. I don't have an agent and yet I've had scripts read by mainstream big publishers from the slush pile (although final offers of publication eventually only from smaller publishers.)Kate Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02425834913219662421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1131658555366805412005-11-10T21:35:00.000+00:002005-11-10T21:35:00.000+00:00Dear Michael:"I ask the question here that I have ...Dear Michael:<BR/><BR/>"I ask the question here that I have asked many times before, principally in my extended essay On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile: is this a business that sensible people should ever get in involved in?:<BR/><BR/>Best Case Scenario: Everyone in publishing reads Michael Allen's essay and quits the business. The publishing industry ceases to exist.<BR/><BR/>Result: No more new books.<BR/><BR/>Worst Case Scenario: See Best Case Scenario above.<BR/><BR/>Result: Same as above.Peter L. Winklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005846686173676213noreply@blogger.com