Things That Might Be Wrong With Our Literary Culture | Socratic Ignorance is Bliss - Part 2

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M@#$eting

April 29th, 2010
Posted in Publishing . Questions
By Ryan

I’ve been reading about marketing recently, because I joined the committee of Wet Ink magazine as Marketing Dude, and understanding what marketing means does not come as naturally to me as understanding how to edit a manuscript does. This seems to be a common sentiment in the small-press sector: there is an immense amount of production [ READ MORE ]

Prizes Ain’t Prizes

November 23rd, 2009
Posted in Literary Culture . Opinion
By Ryan

Sam Cooney has an article about literary awards in the current issue of Voiceworks, and the critical take on such a holy grail inspired me to continue the conversation. I’ve touched on manuscript awards once before, and am regularly vocal, to people who ask, against wholesale acceptance of prizes as a wonderful and highly sought [ READ MORE ]

Resource Sharing

November 19th, 2009
Posted in Books . Questions
By Ryan

I figure a lot of people could save a lot of time if they weren’t rebuilding the wheel each time they wanted to get something rolling. For example, I have been contracted to build on the existing bookshop relationships for Breakdown Press and the process involved harvesting email and phone contacts of Australian bookshops. It was [ READ MORE ]

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