I gotta agree with the general commentary here. Ross Douthat should have been able to place his fantasy novel. I’ll also say this: Ross is also a hell of a lot better off just publishing the damned thing himself. It’ll never happen, but I doubt at this point I’d even take a multi-book contract, assuming anybody was insane enough to offer me one. Traditional publishing is not designed with the well-being of its authors in mind.
Seeing a NYT columnist turn to Substack to get his story out feels like a tipping point moment. And possibly the tipping point is for the trad publishers who rejected that book. https://t.co/KCTy8SAb5I
— Karl K. Gallagher (@KarlKGallagher) October 8, 2024
Counterpoint:
Employment by the New York Time in no way implies an ability to write or conjunct effectively, it’s purely a tribal indicator.
But then again, most publishing houses are insular guardians of leftist orthodoxy as well.
Conundrum.
In fairness, one of the publishing houses *did* just pay Hillary millions for a book nobody is going to read.
Again.
It’s understandable that they might have budgetary issues.
Eh. I’ve more or less given up going to the bookstore. There’s lots of stuff being published that I’m interested in, but none of it is by the big publishers, and almost none of it is on the shelves. (Heck, the local B&N has almost entirely stopped carrying Baen.)