Durham, NC
Michael is a native of the mountains of Western North Carolina and lives in Durham, NC. He is a writer, reader, gamer and runner and is a brother in St. Anthony Hall.
Michael G. Williams
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Michael is a native of the mountains of Western North Carolina and lives in Durham, NC. He is a writer, reader, gamer and runner and is a brother in St. Anthony Hall.
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Sure thing - michael at perishables book dot com will reach me. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I'm reading the blog entry by Konrath right now and it's fantastic. I can't wait to read the others! The point that they make - that publishers are looking at the facts and drawing the wrong conclusions - is very much in line with my own thoughts. For a long time, traditional publishers were the monopolistic gatekeepers to ideas. Now everyone has their own gate, free for the taking, if they want it badly enough: they can just get out there and publish, by gum, and nobody can stop them. Publishers need to shake free of the idea that they make money vampirically* and realize that they should be marketing themselves <em>to authors</em> rather than to readers. A publisher can do an author a tremendous amount of good and they need to shift gears and reengineer their processes so that they market those skills to authors rather than try to spin little webs of complicated royalty formulas.
* As the author of a novel about a vampire, I feel extremely qualified to measure things in units of vampires. I know nothing about traditional publishing, however. ;)