Kameron Hurley on Hard Publishing Truths

[millymollymo]

Kameron Hurley and the importance of relationships and how it helps the writer. Not the romantic kind, the business and social kind. There are a lot of truths in this and it's well worth a read.

Locus Online Perspectives » Kameron Hurley: Hard Publishing Truths: Relationships Matter

 

[Tim Murray]

Thanks for the referral, it was precise and to the point.

 

[Brian G Turner]

She posted a good piece on chrons last year: Dead Men Tell No Tales: On Being an Aspiring Writer in the Digital Age

 

[Jo Zebedee]

This is so true. I know most things I write will find a home somewhere these days - and that's all through connections. I get invited to submit to anthos rather than writing on spec. None of this happened three years ago. Connections. Every time.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Connections. Every time.

Ever been true, esp for jobs and careers.

 

[Wruter]

I always think of how Jim Butcher got his agent:

I got to have this conversation with Jennifer Jackson (my current agent after parting ways with Ricia) that day at the convention: Hey, why are you interested now? You just rejected me like two months ago?

“Well yeah,” says Jennifer. “But that was before I met you.”

Despair ye agoraphobes.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

'Twas ever thus in SF. Very nepotistic, as it were...