More from Charlie about the publishing industry

[julesjones]

Charlie's second post is now up. I heartily recommend this to both readers and to small press and epub authors who want to know more about the process of turning manuscript to hardback or mass market paperback in the bookstore. I'm one of the latter, but I learnt this stuff by hanging around writing forums for several years listening to experienced writers, and editors, and agents -- this is a crash course in Useful And Interesting Stuff.

CMAP #2: How Books Are Made

As CE Petit points out at comment 11, this post is specifically about commercial fiction publishing, and there are other areas of publishing that do things differently (and he gives a detailed example). There are other useful things in the comment thread as well e.g. Charlie explains at comment 21 some more about "mass market", and a large chunk of the reason why that thoroughly annoying format between mmpb and trade paperback appeared.

Comments

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying these posts. Thanks for linking them.

[julesjones]

There's a syndicated feed for Charlie's Diary if you want to pull it into your friends page, http://syndicated.livejournal.com/charlies_diary/profile , and it's set to show just the opening paragraphs so you can decide whether to go and read the full thing without it cluttering up your flist.

But I know there are a fair number of people reading my blog who would probably find Charlie's public blog a bit too geeky for long-term reading, but who'd be interested in this series of posts. So I want to do a heads-up for each post as he puts one up.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's an excellent idea, tanks.