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Sep. 3rd, 2010 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camrogersThe second part of the Great (Book) Expectations interview is up.
Today author Cameron Rogers talks about working with publishers, using a pen-name, having an agent, and what promotions support emerging writers can expect from publishers.
Cam, with your novels, what do your publishers expect from you in terms of rewrites?
It varies from publisher to publisher, editor to editor. A good editor understands what you’re attempting to do with a given manuscript and helps you work in that direction. Another editor may have a more commercial mindset and ask that the main character of your period drama be more like Starscream from Transformers. I wish I was making that last bit up.
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Date: 2010-09-03 10:38 am (UTC)You must share that story.
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Date: 2010-09-03 01:00 pm (UTC)I tried to distill what he was saying, then considered that objectively, then diplomatically kinda didn't respond to it.
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Date: 2010-09-03 01:37 pm (UTC)Have you considered putting some jive-talk in "Fateless", yo?
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Date: 2010-09-03 02:34 pm (UTC)And, with 2,000+ years of literature, he pitched Starscream?
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Date: 2010-09-03 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-03 02:46 pm (UTC)Maybe he was trying to jive talk you?
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Date: 2010-09-03 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-03 03:23 pm (UTC)/Publishing's like that, right?
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