Tim Worstall

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• 1 steve_roberts // Dec 30, 2007 at 1:52 pm

  Err, do you need a publisher today ?

  Editing ? – you can probably write better than the publisher’s editor anyway
  Publicity ? – a popular blog will create that
  Printing and despatch – any print-on-demand service will handle this for you

  When you’ve sold a few thousand copies that way you can probably pick up a publisher if you want one.

• 2 Ms Robinson // Dec 30, 2007 at 3:36 pm

  I have contacts with publishers since I’m a ghostwriter. The issue here is that they think I’m being too witty and intelligent and that girls would like to read sentences like, “Toby was a cad. That was all too it. But Serena loved him.

  They told me I have ‘the skills’ to write chicklit and why didn’t I just write it since they’d publish it.

  In other words, stop being so sarcastic and clever and just write about happy endings.

• 3 Ms Robinson // Dec 30, 2007 at 3:37 pm

  Not ‘too’ but ‘to’.

• 4 dearieme // Dec 30, 2007 at 6:53 pm

  “Not ‘too’ but ‘to’.” Golly, a new apothegm.

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