This is it! I’ve decided that, come what may, it’s the Year of the Book. I don’t know how yet. Pieces of it are still out to agents, and one editor is still reviewing the whole manuscript. I think so, anyway. Let’s just say there are long silences. And patience is not one of my stellar virtues.
An e-publisher is courting me. We had a long talk a few weeks ago during a week in which there was so much e-publishing buzz that I felt very cool and with-it in today’s world. William Styron’s family was making news about the fact that his longtime publisher, Random House, didn’t have rights to e-publish. E-publishing rights weren’t even thought of in Styron’s heyday. In December Media Bistro sponsored a New York City digital publishing summit in led by Jane Friedman, a publishing industry luminary formerly with Harper Collins, who’s made the leap to e-publishing (of old titles, such as Styron’s) in a start-up, Open Road Integrated Media.
