I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
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.
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