An essay on publishing in today's environment

sartorias has a great essay on why she and rachelmanija are publishing Hostage, second book in their series The Change, through Book View Cafe rather than waiting on a big publisher--though the first book, Stranger, came out through Viking.

It's a thoughtful read, and not at all a diatribe: in fact, it includes comments from their Viking editor, Sharyn November, talking a little about how things look from the publisher's angle.

Link to the essay is here.

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