Even your average agent knows that a good part of their job is trying to take feral square - peg writers and hammer them into trained round - peg authors that fit
the publishing pigeon holes of the day.
Not exact matches
Walker attributes this lack of attention from the fact that the agents would often reply wanting more information about her background, and discover that she had
published non-fiction in her field and feared that
pigeon -
holing her as an author might be behind the lack of notice.
Writers do NOT need to
pigeon hole themselves into the confines of using the literary industry or
publishing houses of any sort in order to get the services they may require for
publishing.
It seems to me that we should all be excited at the new opportunities offered by the wider variety of
publishing options and not try to
pigeon -
hole ourselves as just one type.
Such an exchange would signal that the
publishing establishment had
pigeon holed Kobo alongside the much reviled Amazon and that the prospect for the whole industry getting out its digital limbo was slim.