Re: Author's Nightmare aka Cavett blog

**"* P* D* <m*@dargan.com>**

Wow, he mst really have a vendetta with his publisher if it was all that
long ago...! Thanks for your research! MP

On Thu, 24 May 2007 20:05:07 -0400, "Betty Mackey"
<BettyMackey@verizon.net> said:
> 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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