Like writing a novel, if you insist on absolute perfection in every aspect, you'll die of old age before getting
something salable out the door.
Hearing those questions, along with some more sophisticated ones, of course, can give you a sharp image of where the community is right now, a snapshot of both the potential and the problems of an workforce without credentials that hunkers at the National Kitchen Table to try to produce
something salable.
Not exact matches
It's the ones who have a few
salable books in that will most benefit from a publishing house able to do
something with their product.
Is this
something self - published authors can do on the cheap, or does it take considerable money to produce a
salable product?
As someone whose job is at least in part to make these distinctions, how can you tell the difference between a genuinely good abstract painting versus, as you say,
something that is very
salable —
something that simply looks like an abstract painting?