Posted by Prue Eckett on July 10, 2002 at 21:20:41 from 210.54.91.17 user Prue_Eckett.
In Reply to: Re: Books - publishers posted by Peter H on July 10, 2002 at 15:49:00:
'Trial reading groups of children are too unreliable' - there speaks an editor! The wider audience of readers is somehow more reliable?
I find it ludicrous that publishers continue to denigrate their audience in this manner.If they've been tried and failed then its more likely to do with the narrow choice of readers the publisher selected.
Yes,publishing is a matter of backing hunches, and no, there is no such thing as publishing genius, but when readers are dismissed because of variables, then you simply are going back to 'the publisher is right!'
And I could never believe publishing is easy - just as writing isn't the doddle non-writers often think.