A Working Novelist
Chris PavoneInside the world of book publishing.
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47,000 Words Under the Manuscript: Part II
Fair warning: if you don’t work in publishing, this edition is almost definitely not going to be a good use of your time. But if you are a professional, there are some issues here we should be thinking about, and talking about.
Recently I...
The Italian Job
When my twins were in elementary school, Alex asked, “Daddy, are you a famous writer?” We were on our way home from the Greenwich Village public school where the other dads included Philip Seymour Hoffman and Daniel Day Lewis, and the moms...
47,000 Words Under the Manuscript: Part I
What does 47,000 words look like? If you’re a writer, you probably have a pretty good idea; if not, probably not. 47,000 words is somewhere between 110 and 170 pages worth of a hardcover. It’s nearly twice as long as The Old Man and the Sea...
The Royal Scam
Are you aware of the staggering volume of scams that are currently trying to separate writers from our hard-earned pennies? Many of these are easy to spot in the current iterations of their AI generation, and banish to spam. But they keep c...
You Are More Likely to Become an Astronaut
Depending on how you define book and how you define publish, as many as three million books were published last year in the U.S., while a great many more did not find their way to publication, at least not yet. At any given moment in Americ...
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New York Times-bestselling novelist of THE EXPATS, TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON, THE DOORMAN, others. Lifelong New Yorker, 35 years in the book-publishing business.
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