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Manjula Martin

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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,780 ratings · 371 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Scratch: Writers, Money, an...

3.79 avg rating — 1,170 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions
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“People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

“Publishing is a business based on fiction—and not only the fiction that is packaged between book covers or sold as digital downloads. In order to convince harried, distracted people to set aside hours or even days to read hundreds of pages of non-animated words, we in the publishing business must manufacture an aura of success around a book, a glowing sheen that purrs I am worth your time. This aura is conveyed through breathless jacket copy, seductive cover imagery, and blurbs dripping with praise so thick the words seem painted on with honey. This fiction of success is stoked by the fiction of buzz and sustained by the fiction of social media.”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

“The Internet is no longer new; it’s old enough to drink legally.”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

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“People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

“She wasn’t rude, exactly. She simply participated in conversation at the absolute minimum and didn’t encourage anyone to speak to her more than necessary. She didn’t do any of the things women usually do, that I spend so much of my life doing: try to draw others out in conversation, smile receptively, laugh at jokes or even non-jokes just to show you are listening attentively. She didn’t draw attention to her silence or deliberately snub anyone; she simply wasn’t playing the game.”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

“Publishing is a business based on fiction—and not only the fiction that is packaged between book covers or sold as digital downloads. In order to convince harried, distracted people to set aside hours or even days to read hundreds of pages of non-animated words, we in the publishing business must manufacture an aura of success around a book, a glowing sheen that purrs I am worth your time. This aura is conveyed through breathless jacket copy, seductive cover imagery, and blurbs dripping with praise so thick the words seem painted on with honey. This fiction of success is stoked by the fiction of buzz and sustained by the fiction of social media.”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

“Writers are encouraged to believe they are dispositionally opposed to careers in finance, transactions, or law. They are encouraged to self-mythologize as artsy and/or loner and/or incompetent folk.”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

“The Internet is no longer new; it’s old enough to drink legally.”
Manjula Martin, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

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