Comments on: The Publishing Recession http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/12/15/the-publishing-recession/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/12/15/the-publishing-recession/#comment-52935 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:23:14 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=940#comment-52935 Susan,

The trip was great, no money was offered and no Senate Seat was suggested for any money that was not offered! No Blues Brothers either but I did get Mexican, Greek, Italian and pizza! Such are the culinary pleasures of Chi-town!

As for the encouragement it seems to me that when the market offers rewards at the top and the bottom, the middle hurts but being at the bottom, debut authors have better options. Though this is bad news for authors on book three or four who have made only a moderate (I stress this is a relative judgment) impact on the market! No cloud has silver lining for everyone I fear!

Eoin

]]> By: Susan http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/12/15/the-publishing-recession/#comment-52934 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:54:32 +0000 http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/?p=940#comment-52934 First, I love your Christmas decorating here…very nice!

Second, I love your optimism for debut authors. I’d like to move from articles and stories to being a novelist intsead, and the news lately has been depressing. Thanks for that insight–I wouldn’t have stopped working on it anyway, but I’m grateful for the bit of encouragement in this post.

I’m glad you had a good trip to Chicago. Did you get an offer for the Senate seat? Or see the Blues Brothers? ;-)

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