Re: Author's Nightmare aka Cavett blog

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

Wow, I can hardly believe that Dick Cavett is still writing about his 
experience with publishing. In the NYT blog he talks about how his biography 
was signed up after a glam lunch with publisher William Jovanovich (head of 
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) at Lutece -- and then goes on to talk about its 
distribution and publicity being way out of sync, a horror story to be sure, 
with stores unable to order a book with great reviews customers lined up to 
buy it.

I read the blog rather quickly, and I did not notice that it said how old 
Cavett's book is. Cavett's biography was published in 1974. William 
Jovanovich, who was born in 1920, died in 2001. Book publishing has changed 
a lot since the 'seventies.

These days, the internet increases the availability of books. Also, short 
run and print on demand print runs make turnaround many months faster than 
in 1974. Books, except for those with color photos, can be printed, bound, 
and delivered in a matter of days. Nontheless, distribution is still a major 
headache for publishers large and small. No one can predict how many copies 
will sell. And those Lutece lunches and the big publicity budgets for book 
tours have mostly gone bye-bye.

Every author should do as much book pr as possible and keep the lines of 
communication open, politely, with his or her publisher.

Good work, Mary, and keep on doing what you are doing!

With best wishes,
Betty

Betty Mackey, Publisher
B. B. Mackey Books
P. O. Box 475
Wayne, PA 19087
BettyMackey@verizon.net
www.mackeybooks.com

 http://bettymackey.imagekind.com/gardenworld

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Palmer Dargan" <mpdargan@dargan.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:46 AM
Subject: [GWL] Author's Nightmare aka Cavett blog

> Dear GardenWriters:
>
> I've recently finished an initial 4 month book tour to 9 states that was
> was both fulfilling
> and educational. This blog link of Author's Nightmare by Dick Cavett
> might be interesting.
> Some of the comments in Cavett's blog-readers are interesting.
>
> ..http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/an-authors-nightmare/
>

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