Christopher W Gortner's Blog

• Don't Defame The Dead

  July 29, 2009

  • Given the continuing surge in historical fiction’s popularity, backlash was inevitable. First, it was an article in the UK Guardian, in which certain historians bemoaned the success of historical novelists, which in turn has lowered historical nonfiction’s profile and their own advances, and even led some to defect to a genre they clearly feel is beneath them. Now, in a recent article in the ...
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• Writer, beware

  February 12, 2009

  • The online book world has opened an entirely new universe of opportunities, particularly for debut novelists who otherwise must struggle to get noticed in the overpopulated physical world, where chain store co-op runs out after two weeks and newspaper reviews are dwindling. Online, there are now hundreds of eager, enthusiastic bloggers who run book sites, most of whom are indifferent to how much ...
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• Get Thee to the Book Shop

  November 14, 2008

  • If you’ve been following the news lately, no doubt you’ve heard about the terrible downturn in the economy. People are losing jobs; previously solid companies are crumbling; the stock market is creaking and plunging like an old ship; and fear runs rampant.The publishing industry has been hit especially hard. All major houses are reporting declines in revenues and a near-standstill of sales of ...
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