{"id":1757,"date":"2011-01-28T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2020-01-03T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T00:32:34","slug":"so-i-havent-been-blogging-about-the-writing-biz-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/so-i-havent-been-blogging-about-the-writing-biz-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"So I haven’t been blogging about the writing biz lately"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I’ve been mostly writing — for my job during the day, and on evenings & weekends my personal WIPs. But I have to say I am so grateful to folks like JA Konrath<\/a> and Dean Wesley Smith<\/a>, who have invested enormous amounts of time in educating the rest of us about the changes in the publishing industry and what writers need to do to adapt to them.<\/p>\n

Here’s another one — Kristine Kathryn Rusch<\/a>, (Smith’s wife). Another established writer who is incredibly generous with her time. She has a post out today<\/a> directed to mid-listers who own rights to out-of-print books, but this line I think is one all of us should write on a post-it and stick it to our monitor frames:<\/p>\n

If your agent decides to go into e-publishing and print-on-demand, fire that agent immediately.\u00a0 I am not kidding about this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do click through to read the rest . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I’ve been mostly writing — for my job during the day, and on evenings & weekends my personal WIPs. But I have to say I am so grateful to folks like JA Konrath and Dean Wesley Smith, who have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,3],"tags":[242,241],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-publishing","category-writing","tag-agents","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6396,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}