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By AbirThese are extraordinary times. How has the business of being an author changed, for you, in this new reality? 
Welcome to Friday.
Another week in this new reality draws to a close, not that there seems to be much of difference between a weekday and the weekend anymore. I hope youre all hunkered down, safe and sound, looking after your loved ones and have a plentiful supply of lifes essentials: tea, toilet paper and a shed load of good books to read.
So this weeks question: How has...

I Wrote a Book about a Quarantine in an Italian Villa and I Don’t Know How to Promote It from James W. Ziskin

These are extraordinary times. How has the business of being an author changed, for you, in this new reality?
From Jim

Theres a remarkable irony, or coincidence, in this time of social distancing and self-isolation. To wit, I wrote a book about a quarantine that came out the day after the first U.S. case of Coronavirus was diagnosed. More on that in a bit. First, heres what Ive been doing under quarantine.

I dont spend as much time in the car, running errands. I drink more than usual, which...

Up around the bend

The world, and the way we live in it, has changed. These are extraordinary times. How has the business of being an author changed, for you, in this new reality?
by Dietrich
These are extraordinary times, and the world keeps revolving and evolving and many of the events going on around us keep us on the edge of our seats. And in order for me to get any decent writing done, I sometimes feel I need to extract myself from whats going on in the real world, tune it all out, sit at my desk and get my...

Strange New World

Terry Shames here: 
We have a very apt question to reply to this week:The world, and the way we live in it, has changed. These are extraordinary times. How has the business of being an author changed, for you, in this new reality?
How has it changed, past tense? It is still changing. It changes hourly.
 My new reality differs from my old reality in that without being able to go out, I have a lot more time. Which could mean more time to do productive things, but apparently actually...

Responding to the New Reality

Q: The world, and the way we live in it, has changed. These are extraordinary times. How has the business of being an author changed, for you, in this new reality?
Brenda Chapman here.
These are indeed exceptional times. My husband Ted and I have socially isolated for the past two weeks, some days not even unlocking the door to go outside. Happily, we've discovered Zoom and have had video conferences with family and friends to make us feel less isolated.

Dundurn released my latest book  ...

The Publishing Times They Are A Changin’

What change in the publishing landscape over the past decade and a half has impacted you the most?

by Paul D. Marks

Theres a lot of things one could say here: social media, Netflix et al, because they take time from people reading. Smart phones and other things that have shortened our attention span and added to our need for things in short, fast, adrenalin-inducing bites. All of these have affected publishing, even if theyre not directly publishing. But if I had to pick one thing it would be...

I've already MADE lemonade! By Catriona

This week's question is "What changes in publishing in the last fifteen years have had the biggest impact on your writing career?"

And I. Just. Can't.

I'm sorry. It's a good question and I'm sure lots of people are interested in the answer. I just can't.

Ten days into curve-flattening isolation, if I let myself think back over the landscape of either publishing, or my career, or - God knows - both at once, I'll cry.

So in the pursuit of what we have nobly re-cast as self-care - the same thing...

Being Frank and... by Cathy Ace

What change in the publishing landscape over the past decade and a half has impacted you the most?


First of all, if you didnt read Franks piece yesterdaydo that, because he said what I would have said, but better than I would have said it. He talked about self-publishing and the access to e-booksthen mentioned the perennial problem of getting readers to find out about and choose to read your books, but as Frank wisely observed thats a blog for another day.


So, moving forward and bearing in...

Biggest Publishing Change - Two Truths and a Lie

What change in the publishing landscape over the past decade and a half has impacted you the most?

- From Frank


It's a good thing I'm going early in the week, because the easy answer is either still out there or at least not yet beaten to death. Because I'm going to lie to you about it. Ready?

Self-publishing is the biggest change, hands down.

Whether it is a good change or not depends on where you sit, I suppose. But it has been a massive change, fueled of course by the other big change - the...

Climbing the Mountain

Q: What change in the publishing landscape over the past decade and a half has impacted you the most?
- from Susan


My first novel, MURDER IN THE ABSTRACT, was published in 2010, almost two years after I got an agent and 20 months after she sold it in a two-book deal. So, I dont have the longer history that would speak to the question from experience. Its been crazy from my Day One. What Ive experienced:
Small imprints or publishers may surprise you with a by the way email that says theyve sold...