The publishing world is not immune to what's going on in the country right now.
It's a baaaaaaaaaaad time to try to break in.
=^(
Posted by darklight (Member # 5213) on :
It's funny that you posted this now, because I was going to start a thread today asking if with this world wide recession it was worth putting a lot of time, effort and money into submitting to agents and publishers right now.
I'm in the UK, and things are pretty bad here. I don't want to sub now, and get rejections from agents because publishing houses aren't buying new books because of it.
[This message has been edited by darklight (edited November 26, 2008).]
Posted by annepin (Member # 5952) on :
Yes, now seems to be a good time to keep that day job, keep your head down, and write write write. Of course, there's going to be a flood of new material when (cross fingers) this is "over".
Posted by Fox (Member # 3871) on :
I think short fiction and online publications will be largely unaffected.
I kinda figured something like this would happen soon once I noticed the prices in the bookstore skyrocketing.