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It's now 2026. I am glad I am living (or still alive) in the 21st century unlike some people who keep living in the past one.
Its like, they are waiting for other people and the planet to die, like they are actually looking forward to the apocalypse!
I will never understand that. Maybe they watched too many American sci-fi movies with machine guns. Probably don't read many books either.
Dystopia has its place, but what is so wrong with Utopia
Its like, they are waiting for other people and the planet to die, like they are actually looking forward to the apocalypse!
I will never understand that. Maybe they watched too many American sci-fi movies with machine guns. Probably don't read many books either.
Dystopia has its place, but what is so wrong with Utopia
Any who do have a thought about becoming an author will find many self publishing houses available. Including Christian book publishers.
I think you need quite a bit of money up front to self-publish. If you do, good for you. If you don't keep trying the traditional ones. Rejection slips are de rigeur for authors.
Many self publishing houses,though they're labeled as such,will do all the work for a percentage.
It's been awhile since I checked but at one time, Lulu press was one such publisher.
I don't read a lot of self-published novels.
Libraries don't tend to buy them and they don't attract a lot of readers. It's the quality of the book that suffers, aside from the lack of rigorous editing, and standardised or house format and layout.
The story may be really good, but it's not presented attractively. The covers also can be a bit hit and miss.
In the States things are different.
Many publishing houses,self publishers that bring an author on board, will bring titles to Amazon and other retailers. There are ways to bring them into Libraries as well.
Amazon carries books on how to self publish. And even do so through them.
We don't deal with Amazon in NZ anymore. Too many American authors (volume wise) means NZ publishing doesn't get a look in.
Also people do want to read books set in their own locales or familiar surroundings, about people and cultures that are relevant to them. I mean not everyone wants to read yet ANOTHER novel set in New York City or any of the major cities in the world or the craze for Amish novels I can't really explain.
Every other book is like a New York Times Bestseller, even before they get into the shops.
Publishers have now cottoned on to the fact that BIPOC i.e people of colour read and write books too. Literature used to be the exclusive domain of white men in general.
Even JK Rowling had to use her initials rather than her given feminine name to be taken seriously as a novelist. She still writes under a male name 'Robert Galbraith'. Apparently male readers do not like reading novels written by females.
Even JK Rowling had to use her initials rather than her given feminine name to be taken seriously as a novelist. She still writes under a male name 'Robert Galbraith'. Apparently male readers do not like reading novels written by females.
I didn't know that about J.K.Publishers have now cottoned on to the fact that BIPOC i.e people of colour read and write books too. Literature used to be the exclusive domain of white men in general.
Even JK Rowling had to use her initials rather than her given feminine name to be taken seriously as a novelist. She still writes under a male name 'Robert Galbraith'. Apparently male readers do not like reading novels written by females.
I'm shocked by the rest of your story too. Wow.
America's publishers aren't that way,thank God.
Barnes and Noble/Borders Books went under in NZ
Nobody could afford their books imported from the US and containing topics irrelevant to NZers.
I mean novels and such ok but the market was always with British publishers as NZ was a former colony and didn't completely cut ties with the UK, i.e never became a republic.
So if you want to be published internationally, you need to submit to an international publisher, otherwise the market for your book is going to be very small. They can then handle the translations and various formats if your book takes off.
The first Barnes and Noble I ever saw was in Florida.
That was during my bookworm days.
Amazing! Never saw anything like it. I was home.
Comfy chairs inviting you to sit,read,relax. And a tiny cafe
so you didn't have to leave to get lunch.
That was wise advice about international markets too.
Over the past 500 years, one recurring historical pattern is that one century's ideals are next century's practice. 16th century's Reformation, 17th century's civil wars; 17th century's enlightenment, 18th century's industrialization; 18th century's revolutions, 19th century's nationalism and radical ideologies, 20th century's world wars and cold war; 20th century's mass culture and technologies, 21st century's technocratic dystopia.
What's wrong with Utopia is its lack of sustainability, it's a generational phenomenon, at least in America, where you have the boomer generation born in the 1950, right in the post war prosperity, reaping the benefits of all the world's wealth and talents that had taken shelter in America; then in their midlife, they also reapt the benefits of the cold war and the ensuing globalization, another wave of wealth and talents flooding from the broken soviet bloc into the NATO bloc; but since 911, these benefits are gone, the coffers are drying up, the boomers themselves are dying out. The only solution for that? The technocratic dystopia we're living in.
Psst don't tell my sis but I have bought her a surprise Babysitters Club book for her birthday.
It's actually the first I've seen that is in ...hardback!
Also it has various writers writing for each character. Of course Ann M Martin, the OG author and creator, is Mary Anne.
It's actually the first I've seen that is in ...hardback!
Also it has various writers writing for each character. Of course Ann M Martin, the OG author and creator, is Mary Anne.
Their local real estate agent?? lolWonder where they got their plots from
Maybe they were based on real events or situations the cast and crew went through
well yea lol
What about fantasy novels though where do they get their plots from. I would think most of them copied/were inspired by the book of Revelation with all the dragons and good vs evil theme.
JRR Tolkien?
JRR wasn't a lady in disguise though. He was just John Ronald Ruel.
He got it some of it from Norse Tales of Odin I suspect.