Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
I loved horses and horse books as a child.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
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