Would you find it hard as a novelist to hand over your MS to screen-writers? Truth is, I wouldn’t and here’s why: A Screenplay is not a Novel. Every year: Some 250,000 books are published, worldwide. Random House, alone, publishes maybe 250 of them. In contrast, about 300 Hollywood feature films get made. A story for the screen is not a […]
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Guest Post: Confessions of an Editor
Speaking to a senior player in trade publishing in London yesterday, I was struck again by how some fundamental attitudes have changed in recent years. It used to be around the bars of Frankfurt during the annual Book Fair that publishers would bare their souls and fess up sheepishly to the ones that got away. […]