Archive - August 12, 2015

“Publishing is a fundamentally unpredictable business. Often the only way to find out what will sell or not is by publishing the book.” – James O’Shea Wade, editor In this final lesson we will talk about: The Marketplace You and the Marketplace Your Query Letter Publish Now The Marketplace The type of writing we have been talking about these last ten weeks is “new journalism.” It – as you recall – was developed in the 1960s, but was labeled by TomWolfe in his anthology, The New Journalism, published in 1973. New journalism dethroned the novel as the number one literary genre. At that time a long list of best-selling books were published including In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote, The Armies of the Night (1968) by Norman Mailer, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson; and most recently, The Devil in the White City . . .