Archive Page 2

Presque vu VI

1st October 2006 with 1 Comment

*
The Mahablog reports on the state of publishing:
Over the years more and more of the editorial functions have been outsourced or subcontracted, however. Today most copy-editing and proofreading are freelanced, and good luck finding competent people who have received real training. Increasingly even manuscript development and substantive editing are freelanced, or subcontracted to a book [...]

Filed under politics, quotations, reviews, writing
Related Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,



Next Entries »

About Writing:

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate. Donald Hall

Save a Blogger from Begging: Buy Books:


chinese jacket

Signed first editions
at special prices.

RSS Feeds

About Subscriptions and Feeds

Subscribe to posts

Subscribe to comments

1149 feed subscribers

My Website

Visit my website for news of readings and appearances, reviews of and extracts from my novels, interviews, quotations on writing, revolution, lies, time and dance, art, serial killers, and humour. Read short stories, view author images and much more.

Submit your news

Please continue to let me know about literary-related news. I can't promise to publish everything, but if it grabs my interest . . .

Text Size

If you find the text of this blog too small or too large for easy reading, you can alter the size of the font in your browser's View menu. Alternatively, press the CTRL key and roll the mouse wheel forward or back.

Donations

Via Paypal, using johnbakeronline[at]operamail[dot]com