The Awful Truth About Publishing
A glimpse of the writing trade from the inside for your enjoyment and edification: http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/76311.html
Here is the second in a series depicting the odyssey of my patient, beautiful and talented wife, Mrs. John Wright, her travails in finding an editor. Her first meeting with Jim Frenkel is mentioned, as well as the mystery of the Manuscript in the Carved Wooden Box. I make a guest appearance as someone who refuses to sleep any more on the floor forever.
My comment: the mystery of the Manuscript in the Carved Wooden Box always amuses me, because it confirms something I have always said about would-be writers. The serious ones find a current copy of Writer’s Market, read the editor’s guidelines and follow them.
The ones who are not serious had better be friends with the elfs, because if they are published, it will be due to the grace of your fairy godmother, and not the sweat and tears that mingle in the inkwell of a hard-working wordsmith.
Mrs. Wright writes under her maiden name L. Jagi Lamplighter. Her first book is out in stores now, called PROSPERO LOST, sort of a Roger Zelazny meets Shakespeare’s TEMPEST at Santa’s Castle kind of tale, with evil magical dogs and gumshoes in fedoras.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
