input this week I will dedicate it to a successful article in the newspaper Las Provincias on 18/10/2008. This article was written by a "forera" Virtual Library which is Malube Nick, but his real name, which will surely soon begin to prove family is that of Marta Querol. Martha was a novel writer who, like many of us, he was on the hunt to attract the attention of an editor or literary agent. Last year chose to present his first novel, The End of the Phoenix, the Premio Planeta, and coincidences of life, but above all, literary quality, the work of Marta was a finalist.
I still I could only read the first chapter, which you can download at the following address: http://www.editorialcenturione.com/el-final-del-ave-fenix.html ; but try to get it as soon as I can, not in vain like a good book for the holidays that are approaching us. The article I attached below is quite enlightening, do not miss it.
"We finally revealed the worst kept secret in English literature: the Metro Award winners this year. And as usual, no surprise. The day before there was talk of them. It is known that the editorial on the safe bet, and it is not surprising considering the money you invest in that event, between the endowment and the associated costs. From now on, the two winning books will sell like hotcakes, and the authors will travel television, radio and newspapers filled pages, becoming part of that pantheon of writers selling in the names included in the that now same, you are pensando.Es an event that clearly reflects the current literary scene. Two well-known authors with a certain name are strengthened and eight unpublished or published works are few left with the illusion that what they serve at least to get published and out of anonymity. Maybe they get it, but the road is hard, however good their work. There is nothing new. It occurs in all cultural fields and was not going to be different. They are always the top and bottom. Started has never been easy, and anecdotes from Jane Austin to JK Rowling, to Proust or Hemingway, over the years it took to get someone to trust them enough to publish their works.
And, if printing for the first time was hard, today is nothing short of a miracle. If I ask you to think about what was the last I read, eight out of ten they will come to mind a title and an author of the best known. Names of writers who have become media stars, whose initial print runs are around five hundred thousand, seven hundred fifty thousand or even a million copies in Spain alone.
If they can put on the market these amounts, it is logical to think that the publishing market has patriotic good health and that people read up at stoplights. Lara was confirmed this week saying that the sector has been affected by the crisis. Must be unique. Post should be easy, then. But if you're not one of "them", it gets black.
that analogy, the current literary scene is like a huge elastic and airtight jar, which can be "inflated" from the inside out, endless baiting that went long ago, but remains sealed for any new attempt to enter it. How the grapes are put into liquor and continue to grow, lush.
If ever you open the jar is to let some "grape" in another jar near a presenter, actor, singer, athlete ... he decides to capture their experiences on paper preceded by his fame in another field. Not matter if you write good, bad or not write. A new author, however, it will be a superhuman task to enter, and if successful will go to the bottom, buried for the rest of those already. His books just peep in a corner on the shelves of bookshops crammed with titles.
is that publishers do not give the "no" from the beginning. They prefer to entertain their excited candidates with a "maybe", since every writer is ultimately a reader, and therefore a client who must be cared for and educated lay off with a sentence. Besides, who knows if tomorrow it becomes a phenomenon and we must rescue him.
Something similar happens with literary agents, and write in the feminine because the majority are women. These more direct and very professional publishers, report unceremoniously but very politely, that in the next hundred years there's going to play with no new author. Not the answer from all, of course, but six out of ten, and not many officers. I imagine that the four or five remain and they still hope to discover some unknown talent must be willing manuscripts buried under writers, who use them as their last hope to get to see their work published before taking the harakiri with desktop publishing.
options are "extreme" to publish, as he joked with Paco, a writer friend. The latter include entering Big Brother, telling it to mess with someone famous in the program then fashion pink silicone prosthesis placed two and a half a kilo to Yola Berrocal and be the cover of Interviu with a suggestive title to " Two volumes to discover. " With that you will almost certainly publish. But those who want to reach real writers, of all life, do not use it.
In fact, the only possible solution for those who want to be a writer, is working, write, work stress and more. Hopefully there is still a generous and enlightened editor decides to gamble with these strangers to uncover something new, but it plays. Never be grateful enough. "
And, if printing for the first time was hard, today is nothing short of a miracle. If I ask you to think about what was the last I read, eight out of ten they will come to mind a title and an author of the best known. Names of writers who have become media stars, whose initial print runs are around five hundred thousand, seven hundred fifty thousand or even a million copies in Spain alone.
If they can put on the market these amounts, it is logical to think that the publishing market has patriotic good health and that people read up at stoplights. Lara was confirmed this week saying that the sector has been affected by the crisis. Must be unique. Post should be easy, then. But if you're not one of "them", it gets black.
that analogy, the current literary scene is like a huge elastic and airtight jar, which can be "inflated" from the inside out, endless baiting that went long ago, but remains sealed for any new attempt to enter it. How the grapes are put into liquor and continue to grow, lush.
If ever you open the jar is to let some "grape" in another jar near a presenter, actor, singer, athlete ... he decides to capture their experiences on paper preceded by his fame in another field. Not matter if you write good, bad or not write. A new author, however, it will be a superhuman task to enter, and if successful will go to the bottom, buried for the rest of those already. His books just peep in a corner on the shelves of bookshops crammed with titles.
is that publishers do not give the "no" from the beginning. They prefer to entertain their excited candidates with a "maybe", since every writer is ultimately a reader, and therefore a client who must be cared for and educated lay off with a sentence. Besides, who knows if tomorrow it becomes a phenomenon and we must rescue him.
Something similar happens with literary agents, and write in the feminine because the majority are women. These more direct and very professional publishers, report unceremoniously but very politely, that in the next hundred years there's going to play with no new author. Not the answer from all, of course, but six out of ten, and not many officers. I imagine that the four or five remain and they still hope to discover some unknown talent must be willing manuscripts buried under writers, who use them as their last hope to get to see their work published before taking the harakiri with desktop publishing.
options are "extreme" to publish, as he joked with Paco, a writer friend. The latter include entering Big Brother, telling it to mess with someone famous in the program then fashion pink silicone prosthesis placed two and a half a kilo to Yola Berrocal and be the cover of Interviu with a suggestive title to " Two volumes to discover. " With that you will almost certainly publish. But those who want to reach real writers, of all life, do not use it.
In fact, the only possible solution for those who want to be a writer, is working, write, work stress and more. Hopefully there is still a generous and enlightened editor decides to gamble with these strangers to uncover something new, but it plays. Never be grateful enough. "
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