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Dr Ro Smith | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 #WritersCoffeeClub 9/24. What are your biggest bugbears with publishing?

My God, where to start?

How about the idea that you have to write only one type of thing to be successful and target your 'niche'. My favourite authors write cross-genre and I will too!

Or that you MUST read enough recent books to find at least two similar enough to your own to be comps. It's deeply ableist.

I am well-read. I have a fucking Eng Lit degree. I'm also fucking SICK. I'm lucky if I finish one book a year!>
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Dr Ro Smith | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >What about the fact that authors are now expected to do a lot of their own marketing?

Or the fact that an advance is no longer received as a whole IN ADVANCE.

Or the fact that publishing contracts are now coming out with clauses that require permission to feed your works into the plagiarism machines?

Or the fact that the biggest publishing houses are unrepentant about using AI 'art' on their covers?>