One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
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- And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
- One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
- Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
- I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
- I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.