I subscribe to daily e-mails from Book2Book, which is sort of the British version of Publisher's Lunch. You get publishing news here first, plus it's fun to read about literary festivals in Bath and York and other places I wish I could visit.
But today there were two headlines right NEXT to each other that read:
"Publishers Pay Big Money For Celebrity Memoirs — And Make Big Money"
and
"Publishing House Jobs Go As Celebrity Books Fail To
Sell :The lustre of celebrity memoirs is fading "
OK, so don't those sound like exact opposite sentiments?
This is why most days I try not to worry about it too much. Just keep my head down and write. Because the business it too unpredictable and too completely out of my control for me to do anything about it anyway.
Just write your little heart out.
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