A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.