Dear Danuta: the Mslexia Authors’ Advice column
Mslexia, Summer 2009 Dear Danuta, My book agent tells me that my book has been rejected by the large publishers as ‘too literary’ and ‘not commercial.’ I don’t understand: what is the difference...
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The © Word: Copyright and the Google Settlement
The Deal Online Whatever happens to the Google Settlement on 9th November, the impact on the global publishing industry will take longer to decipher When, on 9th November, both sides of the Google...
View ArticleA Bill of rights for writers
The Deal Online The UK is a world leader in the creative industries, but digitisation has undermined its competitiveness. The government has responded with the Digital Economy Bill, but this landmark...
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Copyright: The Amen Break
ALCS News Spring 2011 Six seconds. Count it: one, two, three, four, five, six. That is all it took for Gregory C Coleman to play a drum solo that would change music in ways no one sat in the studio...
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The Writing Life: money for nothing
A friend of mine is a therapist and says you should always charge clients. If you don’t, she tells me, they take your work for granted and the sessions are a waste of time. I wish somebody would tell...
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Ebooks: the unlikely saviour of the hardback
Cue Entertainment Magazine Faced with flatlining sales, the end of the money-spinning Twilight and Harry Potter series and severe competition from rival media, it has been hard for book publishers to...
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How to Choose a Creative Writing Degree
Creative writing degrees have sprung up like weeds in the literary landscape. At upwards of £9,000 a year, it’s easy to see their appeal to universities: they are nice little earners. For students they...
View ArticlePiracy: The Big Rip Off
First published in the ALCS News August 2012 You have to hand it to the editors of Wikipedia – half of whom are under 28 – youthful rebellion never looked like this. By instigating a 24-hour blackout...
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Books to look out for: Back to the future
First appeared in: Mslexia 56 winter 2012/13 Women have broken into the last bastion of macho writing, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and they are changing the market Forget everything you ever thought...
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