There's a mantra suggesting writers fire agents? News to me,and seems unlikely, but let's pretend there is such a mantra being chanted so incessantly that Eagon had no choice but to blog about it. On the contrary, my agent assists me in self-publishing. making the writer money) have no reason to fire them. And those with agents, assuming the agents are good (i.e. While I have heard the "Do it yourself" argument preached a lot by writers, I don't know of any writer who feels they don't need an editor. Joe sez: I have an agent, and a film manager, and several editors. Scott: I was talking to one of my clients this weekend and she was saying how her chapter had a guest speaker who was once again preaching the line, "Fire your agents and fire your editors! Do it yourself!" I have to say, since RWA this year I am getting pretty irritated at this mantra we are hearing from authors out there. And don't post shit on the world wide web hoping you can erase it later. He's the reason why, when I fisk someone, first I make sure the Wayback Machine caches the post so now Scott can't ever delete it.ĭon't drink and drive. ![]() The Wayback Machine is an easy way to read the blog post Scott erased. Especially since, with the Internet, evidence can't be eradicated. If I'm wrong, I apologize, I don't try to erase evidence. Integrity prevents me from deleting them. I've written a few contentious posts in my day. Though I did comment that Scott deleted his contentious post. He was torn to shreds on Passive Voice, so I didn't really need to weigh in. Speaking of, from agent Scott Eagan's blog: Self-published authors - Please Quit Picking Fights!Ī few years ago, Scott did a stupid post supporting Harlequin on an issue which has recently become a class action. Wylie can throw his public tantrums declaring he's still relevant, but he's going to wind up another disintermediated middleman. Amazon doesn't need Hachette, and Hachette will never be able to take sales away from Amazon. The publishing industry, blinded by decades of absolute power, didn't think its authority would ever be challenged. They created the online store readers want to shop at, and the device readers want to use. Hachette's "line in the sand" is holding out to protect its paper oligopoly, at the expense of its authors.Īmazon is an innovator. They whined and moaned and illegally colluded and got caught. …Hachette to their great credit drew a line in the sand,” he said. “The publishing industry, up until now has cowered and whined and moaned and groaned and given Amazon pretty much everything they want. Then all of those poverty-row authors can move to Beverly Hills. If Wylie is concerned about the livelihood of authors, he can just forgo his commission. But it's adorable that Wylie thinks an extra 15% (going from 25% digital to 40%) in royalties will be enough for authors to quit their day jobs and suddenly make enough money to live. Writers don't need the Big 5 to make a living, thanks to Amazon. Certainly not by the Keystone Cops-like bumbling of the Big 5.ĥ. They could raise author royalties right now, they don't have to wait for Amazon to be buried.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() Publishers are already making gigantic profits on ebooks. When you sink to alarmist language and the appeal to fear fallacy, you've lost.ģ. Updating Godwin's Law for millennials by using ISIS instead of Nazis is proof-positive that Wylie needs to shut the fuck up. ![]() They're middlemen whose value-added services cost too much for the majority of authors.Ģ. The publishing industry's health will never be restored. The amount of stupid that Wylie fit into that single sentence is commendable. I have a few contacts at Amazon, so I asked them for a response, but they were too busy beheading innocent people to reply. “Writers will begin to make enough money to live.” “I believe with the restored health of the publishing industry and having some sense of where this sort of ISIS-like distribution channel, Amazon, is going to be buried and in which plot of sand they will be stuck, will be able to raise the author’s digital royalty to 40% or 50%,” he said. Joe sez: Super-agent Andrew Wylie, in what seems like a conscious effort to make sure he never gets another query letter, addressed the Toronto Festival of Authors and taught them all about hyperbole.
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