Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 9:13:07 GMT 5.5
This sentence is interpretable. I am convinced that every author should write what he wants, but on the one hand you have to get it into your head that a book must be sold, therefore it must be salable , like any product. Let's take an extreme example: are typewriters produced anymore? No, obviously, because today there are computers that have replaced them. Typewriters are sold only as enthusiast antiques. This means that the typewriter product is not salable today. With a book the situation is no different. I still see people who persist in wanting to publish poems and autobiographies.
Question: Do poems have a market? But if people don't read Dante, don't read Ungaretti, don't read Pascoli or Leopardi, why should they read your poems? No offense to anyone, but I don't think there are poets of that Special Data caliber today. Another question: do autobiographies have a market? Here the answer is different: it depends. The autobiography of Mussolini, of Mark Twain, of Stephen King, of any other famous person is salable. Not yours. Analyzing the publishing market means knowing the potential of the book we would like to write. I talked about this when I wrote some editorial marketing tips . Study a strong idea From the analysis of the publishing market we move on to the study of the idea for the book .
It's not enough to know what not to propose to a publisher, you also need to know what to propose , which is perhaps more difficult. What is a strong idea? It is certainly not the book that will win you the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is only the book that will give you the most chance of being taken into consideration , and therefore of being published. It is the book that is missing among those of its genre, it is the book that every reader is waiting for, it is the book that enhances that literary genre, it is the book that makes the author a new voice among the others. What is a new entry? I can say what it is not: if you write a saga almost identical to Twilight , you are not a new voice, but only a shadow voice. This doesn't mean that you can't take inspiration or ideas, but that you have to do it by making your book authentic and original.
Question: Do poems have a market? But if people don't read Dante, don't read Ungaretti, don't read Pascoli or Leopardi, why should they read your poems? No offense to anyone, but I don't think there are poets of that Special Data caliber today. Another question: do autobiographies have a market? Here the answer is different: it depends. The autobiography of Mussolini, of Mark Twain, of Stephen King, of any other famous person is salable. Not yours. Analyzing the publishing market means knowing the potential of the book we would like to write. I talked about this when I wrote some editorial marketing tips . Study a strong idea From the analysis of the publishing market we move on to the study of the idea for the book .
It's not enough to know what not to propose to a publisher, you also need to know what to propose , which is perhaps more difficult. What is a strong idea? It is certainly not the book that will win you the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is only the book that will give you the most chance of being taken into consideration , and therefore of being published. It is the book that is missing among those of its genre, it is the book that every reader is waiting for, it is the book that enhances that literary genre, it is the book that makes the author a new voice among the others. What is a new entry? I can say what it is not: if you write a saga almost identical to Twilight , you are not a new voice, but only a shadow voice. This doesn't mean that you can't take inspiration or ideas, but that you have to do it by making your book authentic and original.