#publisher

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. ↗

— Terri Windling

#bit #business #called #fantasy #fiction

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#even #i #like #much #publishers

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. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#i #in print #keep #me #novels

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#books #collaboration #done #editors #even

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#bother #conventions #even #publishers #textbook

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on. ↗

— Marc Davis

#did #had #hollywood #i #me

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#myth #people #publishers #read #things