How Do Publishers Decide Which Books to Bet On?

We found this excerpt from Anne Trubeck’s book So You Want to Publish a Book?  on Jane Friedman’s amazing blog and know that when you read this short guide to the way publishers think you’ll be as grateful to both these find ladies as we here at TVWriter™ are.

by Anne Trubek

Each book a publisher launches is its own miniature, stand-alone start-up. Every book is a gamble. Publishing could have a game table on the floor of a Vegas casino, nestled between blackjack and roulette. Bet on which title will earn out, and which will fail. When a title doesn’t break even, the casino swipes the chips off the table. But when a bet wins, it can make up for all those losses. A few bestsellers can support a press despite many money-losing titles. read article

Cartoon: Obligations

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, shows us the difference between what people all too often believe is love and what love really is.

See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE read article

Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments

Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front! Peacock Launches w/o Roku and Fire TV Support, Comcast’s Data Caps Return, & More!

Cord Cutters Video Channel: https://twitter.com/CordCuttersNews
Cord Cutters Web Site: http://cordcuttersnews.com read article

Quibi, from promising start to industry laughingstock

We’re lovin’on the title of this article from washingtonpost.com (Paywall Alert!) because not only does it perfectly encapsulate what Sonia Rao has written below, it also shows how right William Goldman’s famous paragraph truly is.

Yeppers, friends and neighbors, we’re talking about this paragraph: read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #105 “Birthday Boy”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article