A Publisher's Conversation with Authors: Confidence and Trust - Importance and Source
It is Tuesday. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. Today's post is a case that is just the opposite of the author described last week, but with a similar result. Justifying a contract could not be in the cards because the author so deeply distrusted the process and, one would assume by extension, the people involved. The rhetoric The author's words were so fearful that they were almost painful to read. "I am taking a leap of faith here," he wrote, " in trusting you with my book. Yes, that's true. However, if he had done due diligence in researching the history of the publisher, looking at books published the publisher, checking out "thumbs down" lists of un