August 31, 2005

bloody hell

4 Comments

A blog about the the utter disas­ter that is Loui­siana. Words utterly fail me. [Thanks to Par­met for the link.]
[IMPORTANT UPDATE:] The help the blog lin­ked above, I’ve built a wiki page to help the peo­ple of Sli­dell, Loui­siana get infor­ma­tion to each other. Hope it helps.
[MEANWHILE:] Why is it that every time I read anything even remo­tely rela­ted to the book publishing busi­ness, I just roll my eyeballs?

4 Responses to “bloody hell”

  1. Jay Sennett says:
    August 31, 2005 at 4:50 pm

    I roll my eye­balls, too. Mostly because the publishing industry has become filled with navel gazing edi­tors and agents and wri­ters trying to please each other for the five cents pro­fit they will make.
    As best as I can tell, the lot of them don’t know what they are doing. Their mar­ke­ting plans rely on “if we build it they will come.” Wri­ters care more about the opi­nions of revie­wers (good reviews sell books!!) and agents than the peo­ple they are sup­po­sed to be wri­ting for.
    And the publishers publish what they think will work. Based on what I don’t know. But for the likes of my com­mu­nity I get about one good book every 3 – 5 years.
    So, taking the Hugh­train to heart, next year will be the debut of my mic­ro­pu­blishing com­pany. Screw tra­di­tio­nal publishing, I say.
    Thanks, as always, for your great thoughts and humor.

  2. Somebaudy says:
    August 31, 2005 at 6:00 pm

    What sur­pri­sed you exactly ? That one in 500 or 1000 book get published ?

  3. Alan Gutierrez says:
    September 1, 2005 at 2:14 pm

    Hugh, Ever­yone
    I’ve crea­ted a wiki and I’m wor­king on orga­ni­zing pho­to­graphs, names, and eye-witness accounts, by neigh­borhood, in Orleans Parish. It is very hard to find infor­ma­tion since it is scat­te­red and not at all cate­go­ri­zed. I’m hoping that peo­ple will be able to ans­wer ques­tions for them­sel­ves, by scan­ning pho­to­graphs.
    If anyone want’s to help, with for­mat­ting, or clas­si­fi­ca­tion. Please let me know.
    alan@engrm.com
    http://thinknola.com/wiki/

  4. The Post Money Value says:
    September 1, 2005 at 7:07 pm

    Book Publishing and Mana­ge­ment — Still wor­king out the kinks

    Hugh at gaping­void made men­tion of the publishing industry here with a link to some, well, as he put it, eye rolling. Then Seth reminds peo­ple not to buy his book making good on his pro­mise of a free e-book down­load. Seths been doing the