tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565536117447494278.post925874219177688006..comments2024-03-25T19:04:22.529-07:00Comments on The Silver Rush Mysteries: Mystery from the Inside: Mysterious Matters: Mystery Publishing DemystifiedAnn Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13177732952658080784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565536117447494278.post-77626035578357146252009-11-12T20:42:17.559-08:002009-11-12T20:42:17.559-08:00Good question. How well do other people "mana...Good question. How well do other people "manage" their careers, I wonder? Nowadays people step lively from one company to another in order to move ahead. In publishing, one needs an agent to guide and direct. Leaping from one publisher to another isn't nearly as easy as switching employers in the work-a-day world. (Of course, we're not talking about current times, which are hard all over for just about everyone!)Ann Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177732952658080784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565536117447494278.post-34095045657318603072009-11-12T19:36:02.505-08:002009-11-12T19:36:02.505-08:00We see the same thing in the music business, or ar...We see the same thing in the music business, or art, or acting. In all of these fields, a very small percentage "make it" .. is it that "creative" people don't know how to manage their careers so others step in and take over?<br /><br />There would be no publishing business if not for writers, and yet ...Camille Minichinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04701150885595400018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565536117447494278.post-17110140662390982502009-11-11T22:21:50.315-08:002009-11-11T22:21:50.315-08:00What's up with that indeed. Consider what an e...What's up with that indeed. Consider what an engineer might earn. Or, bring it closer to home: a technical writer. A tech writer with less than one year's experience (according to the website PayScale) makes somewhere around $35K to $50K per year. How many writers of fiction make this much? Not many, I'd wager. Yet both work with words. One type of writer is "valued" (if $$ paid = value), the other not so much. Or maybe it's a "supply and demand" thing... so many people want to be published fiction writers vs tech writers...??Ann Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177732952658080784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565536117447494278.post-20189479779667773172009-11-10T21:59:20.829-08:002009-11-10T21:59:20.829-08:00Thoughtful, Ann, as usual.
I'm wondering, how...Thoughtful, Ann, as usual.<br /><br />I'm wondering, however, why it is that writers and artists in other fields don't get their due?<br /><br />There's a long chain from an agent to a publisher to the marketing people to the distributor to the bookseller to the reader. The author is often last in line to get paid. And often expected to donate time, books ... well, you know what I mean.<br /><br />Yet we (including me!) are grateful just to be in the system where we're taken advantage of like that, as long as we are still "allowed" to write ...<br /><br />what's up with that?Camille Minichinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04701150885595400018noreply@blogger.com