KittyF
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Any MidListers out there?
The angst, the misery! It's never enough!
You receive fine notices in The New York Times Book Review and The Cleveland Plain Dealer, but nothing in The Wall Street Journal or Bookforum. Why? It is not the negative reviews that rankle but the nonreviews. There is a picture in my mind of some book review editor who holds my latest book in his hands and decides, “Nah, skip it.” Some of these people I run into at holiday parties and literary events. How can these traitors look me in the eye? How can they sleep at night, those cowards, those bozos?
mes.com/2013/08/11/books/review/midlist-crisis.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20130809
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8/9/2013, 12:47 pm
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Frank Baron
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Re: Any MidListers out there?
Link doesn't work for me, Kitty.
But I've had conversations with multi-published mid-list novelists and their lives, at least monetarily, ain't easy. It can be much like a hamster in a wheel - pedal like mad to stay put.
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8/10/2013, 12:44 am
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KittyF
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Re: Any MidListers out there?
Says Frank: Link doesn't work for me, Kitty.
Whoops! That's because some dork posted a goofball address.
Another try:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/books/review/midlist-crisis.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20130809&_r=0
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Jena Grace
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Re: Any MidListers out there?
At least he got published in the NYT.
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8/12/2013, 10:37 am
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