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Enjoy your turkey-fete. Don't be a turkey.
Enjoy your turkey-fete. Don't be a turkey.
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Friday, November 19, 2004
THE MEANING OF LIFE
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Kudos to Mark Sarvas's guest reviewer JIM RULAND at
TEV for reacquainting us with this unforgettable monologue from Alex Cox’s REPO MAN:
"A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give you an example, show you what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like "plate" or "shrimp" or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness."
*Regarding the ASTERISK in the middle of MAD MAX'S Jan 23 posting
*I would argue, and am sure to get some hate-mail for saying so, that the success of, say, THE LOVELY BONES had as much to do with luck as with the (admittedly very smart) marketing energy that went into its publication. And in anticipation of that hate-mail, let me clarify: there are three components that have to be considered in such a case:
1. the subjective nature of individual taste.
2. the marketing energy etc.; and
3. sheer dumb luck.
Contrary to popular opinion, lots of books (though admittedly a small proportion of all books published) get that degree of marketing energy; of those, one in a million becomes THE LOVELY BONES. Email Mad Max Perkins ★SITE FEED!★HERE IT IS!★- CLICK HERE FOR SITE FEED!
ON THE SUBJECT OF RESURRECTING THE TRUE [NON-PEJORATIVE] MEANING OF "MIDLIST"
"Remember when 'middle class' was a good thing, and comprised the hearty mid-section of American society? Now everyone’s above or below, and when the middle is evoked, it always means different things. So I’d advocate campaigning 'midlist' right out of existence!
- --Media Entrepreneur
"Speaking of pejorative terms...if you really want to talk about a term that has acquired an unfair connotation, how about "mass market paperback" or "paperback original"? Say those words at a gathering of publishing machers and it's as though you uttered the phrase "direct to video" at an A-list Hollywood event..."
- BEATRICE.COM [Ron Hogan does author interviews & more]
- BEATRIX [RH does book review reviews & more]
- BUZZ, BALLS & HYPE [Author M.J. Rose talks turkey about publishing, marketing, & more]
- CONFESSIONS OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC MIND [Sarah Weinman discourses on thrillers, mysteries & more]
- THE ELEGANT VARIATION [Mark Sarvas's Literary Weblog]
- EMERGING WRITERS FORUM [Dan Wickett interviews authors, reviews books...]
- FLOGGING THE QUILL [Ray Rhamey on the craft of writing--and editing too]
- FRESH EYES: A Bookseller's Journal [Robert Gray waxes tender & true about books & bookselling]
- GALLEYCAT [Nathalie Chicha on literary news & the glorious world of publishing]
- MAUD NEWTON [Yes that Maud Newton]
- PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE [Michael Cader's subscription site, worth every penny--center of the publishing universe]
- RETURN OF THE RELUCTANTS, aka EdRants [Temporarily M.I.A. due to overwhelming demand]
- Name: Libertarian Girl
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- --Publisher
"Rather than a public relations campaign, I think it ['midlist'] needs a burial in a pine box, no obit."
- --Literary Agent
"The true problem is that we all pay too much for these books. We often pay advances that don't truly take into consideration the odds against one of the books selling more than 7,500 to 10,000 copies. If advances for this type of project were more in line with the long odds, then perhaps "midlist" wouldn't have become such a dirty word."
- --Editor-in-Chief
"I agree that the midlist represents a more significant portion of the business than it's commonly given credit for...The problem is, the overhead involved in publishing a book that sells 10,000 copies is roughly the same as for one that sells ten times as many -- you have to negotiate for roughly the same amount of time, you have to edit the same number of pages, you have to do the same amount of proofreading, you have to design as many covers, you have to pay the same plate charges, etc. -- so from a business point of view you're much better off publishing one 100,000-copy seller than ten 10,000-copy sellers."
- --Publisher
"My feeling is that the term is a holdover from a previous era in publishing, one in which midlist truly was the backbone of the industry."
- --Literary Agent
"It seems to me that on any list there are a few big things, a few conspicuous dogs, and therefore a rather large, impossible-to-define midlist."
- --Editor
"Your 15,000 copy cut-off makes sense, though I might want to say about 90 percent of authors would meet that definition."
- --Literary Agent
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