It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.