Anna’s recent comments on the increasingly risk averse nature of mainstream publishing and the efforts new writers are making to find their audience have gotten me thinking…
Howard Davis
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Online writing and its potential
Anna’s recent comments on the increasingly risk averse nature of mainstream publishing and the efforts new writers are making to find their audience have gotten me thinking…
Led by a knowledgeable approach to a quickly changing industry, CN has quickly grown a wealth of original novels and non-fiction in addition to scores of eager online readers.
Why do mainstream publishers opt for celebrity mush when there is such an abundance of new writing online? You’ve only to look at the tweets of many of the various publishing houses on the feed on CN’s front page to note the multitude of book promotions for celebrities and established authors. CN is living proof that if you put well written fiction online people will read and enjoy it. Why go for Danni Minogue, when you could have something highly original such as Um and Ah and the Problem with Chlorine by Kiera Dickinson?
You buy a CD/MP3 if you like a song you’ve heard.
You buy a book – Why? The cover? The blurb? The fact that writer is well known? A review? To look hip on the tube?
If the novel can be read online isn’t it going to be the writing itself that sells a book and not merely the marketing?
If a publisher were to trial new writing online and then promote those books and writers that proved popular wouldn’t that be a way of limiting risk and prove far more interesting than having to spend your day finding new ways to promote Jordan’s latest ghostwritten blockbuster?
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