Sunday, May 03, 2009

Fiction Faces Hard Facts: Newcomers Are a Tough Sell

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Fiction Faces Hard Facts: Newcomers Are a Tough Sell - washingtonpost.com:
"'Fiction is just more difficult than ever.' . . . 'You're going to see less fiction.' . . . 'Big houses are trying to figure out what the sure thing is and are rolling back to that.' . . . 'All our plans for doing funky stuff have been put on hold.' . . . 'Art's not predictable; you can't try to do art with a cookie cutter.' . . . 'It becomes increasingly difficult to get attention for a new author.' . . .

So say agents, editors and publishers asked about the future of fiction in these trying economic times."

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