Just Some Observations - E-Publishing

I don't know if you have noticed this lately, but in the last several editions of the RWR the newly published authors are showing us a little interesting tidbit. Almost every new author has gone to a e-publisher. Very few have been published with the print publishers that everyone (or at least the ones that come across my desk) seem to want to publish with.

Does this mean that e-publishing is the new wave of the future?

No.

As I see it, this simply means that these writers are not submitting projects to the print publishers that are what they want to see. It isn't that print publishers aren't signing new contracts. Just follow Twitter for any of your favorite agents out there and you see them constantly working through new contracts. For many writers, they are assuming these are for new authors. My bet, they are for the writers already established in the business.

Many of the editors I talk to openly tell me they want to see some great new projects. They are desperately searching for that golden gem. They want that great author. Agents are doing the same thing. The problem is that the stories just aren't there.

I said this a couple of weeks ago, but you can't blame the editors for not buying. The real issue is that the stories just aren't coming in.