{"id":434,"date":"2010-06-22T21:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=434"},"modified":"2010-06-22T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T21:50:22","slug":"useful-if-not-uplifting-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Useful, if not Uplifting, Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a few links from links I came across <a title=\"Help I Need A Publisher\" href=\"http:\/\/helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/when-will-there-be-good-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">this blog entry<\/a> from &#8216;Help I Need A Publisher&#8217; by Nicola Morgan which has some sobering thoughts on the state of the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a very interesting bullet-pointed list of advice for new writers &#8212; a group the author feels might be less disadvantaged than published writer.<\/p>\n<p>Our visits from authors, an agent and a publisher seem to have wised our class up to these economic realities &#8212; I find it quite encouraging in a way that there still are authors who can write whatever they like and still feel &#8216;the world owes them a living&#8217; &#8212; though I guess they won&#8217;t be around for that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a few links from links I came across this blog entry from &#8216;Help I Need A Publisher&#8217; by Nicola Morgan which has some sobering thoughts on the state of the publishing industry. There&#8217;s a very interesting bullet-pointed list of advice for new writers &#8212; a group the author feels might be less disadvantaged than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Useful, if not Uplifting, Advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[364,365,1261],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","tag-help-i-need-a-publisher","tag-nicola-morgan","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}