And while, yes, based on experience alone,
maybe editors and agents do have a better eye than Average Joe, it doesn't mean they're right.
At last year's World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, I attended a panel during which an
agent (or
maybe she was an
editor) made some disparaging remarks about self - publishing,
and a few audience members stood up
and respectfully explained to her why she was wrong.
And when the whole thing is over, if we are really lucky, everybody splits maybe a million dollars, that's the publisher, and the agent, the editors and the writer, and yet ironically a lawyer writes a brief and there might be tens of millions hundreds billions of dollars actually writing on this case, and nobody looks at
And when the whole thing is over, if we are really lucky, everybody splits
maybe a million dollars, that's the publisher,
and the agent, the editors and the writer, and yet ironically a lawyer writes a brief and there might be tens of millions hundreds billions of dollars actually writing on this case, and nobody looks at
and the
agent, the
editors and the writer, and yet ironically a lawyer writes a brief and there might be tens of millions hundreds billions of dollars actually writing on this case, and nobody looks at
and the writer,
and yet ironically a lawyer writes a brief and there might be tens of millions hundreds billions of dollars actually writing on this case, and nobody looks at
and yet ironically a lawyer writes a brief
and there might be tens of millions hundreds billions of dollars actually writing on this case, and nobody looks at
and there might be tens of millions hundreds billions of dollars actually writing on this case,
and nobody looks at
and nobody looks at it.