Exploding Myths & Destroying Minds

Dean Wesley Smith is updating his infamous blog series Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing. I remember my first reaction when I stumbled across his blog: this guy is going to make enemies!

He takes on every myth in the business from "you must rewrite something to make it good" to "an agent always acts in a writer's best interests". When I discovered his blog around Christmas 2009, I thought it was explosive stuff.

I agreed with a lot of what he was saying, but I was completely invested in...