Sentences with phrase «advantage older writers»

One advantage older writers have is experience, and for nonfiction writers this can translate into a solid platform.

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Older agents went into hiding, knowing their job wasn't to read slush, and new scam agents popped up everywhere, taking advantage of this new guideline from publishers by milking the writer of their money and crushing their dreams.

But from reading around, it would appear that the Universal response of publishing companies around the Western world to the challenge of new market conditions is to double down on their «gatekeeper» functions while [e st] searching frantically through old contracts for ways to take advantage of writers.

You wouldn't be wrong to look at all these questions, demands, and new action in the area of author contracts and see a new momentum shifting the author corps to a more central position in the industry, a spot from which writers may be able to question the «same old same old» with new success if they can rise to the professionalism and business acumen required to take good advantage of these developments.