As someone who reads a lot, I have a certain amount of interest in the way publishing works. It’s sort of fascinating to get to hear about the day to day operations, and how a manuscript becomes a book.<\/p>\n
In that vein, alg on LiveJournal (I’m hazy about whose names are public and whose aren’t, so I’ll stick with the username) has a discussion of book finances<\/a>, complete with made-up numbers, part of her ongoing series of posts about the publishing business<\/a>. It’s an interesting look at what goes into a failed mass-market book.<\/p>\n In a vaguely similar vein, there’s some interesting stuff about the author side of the process over at Tobias Buckell’s blogs, dealing with both general freelancing<\/a> (as he tries to work up to Scalzi’s high-roller status), and also his fiction<\/a>. I find this sort of stuff fascinating, too.<\/p>\n Of course, between editors and authors, the book business has lost whatever romantic gloss it might’ve appeared to have when I was younger and more impressionable. In a weird way, though, this just makes me appreciate the good books that do get published more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As someone who reads a lot, I have a certain amount of interest in the way publishing works. It’s sort of fascinating to get to hear about the day to day operations, and how a manuscript becomes a book. In that vein, alg on LiveJournal (I’m hazy about whose names are public and whose aren’t,… Continue reading Inside the Sausage Factory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}