The Writing Business Is a Killer: Advice From the Trenches
Author Natalie R. Collins, whose latest TAPPED OUT has made this month's IMBA bestseller list, wrote a very honest and noteworthy blog about the up's and down's of the writing business over at Murder She Writes . She posed a series of questions to many bestselling authors like Tess Gerritsen, Lisa Gardner, M.J. Rose and the like about how long it took them to get published and how many times they were rejected. I call it a Must Read for anyone aspiring to get into this crazy business. It is plagued with rejection, inexplicable business decisions by publishers, incredibly hard work and very little financial gain. And yet we keep returning to it over and over...