How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Pop writer's lament

A booksigning in older days would have fans lining around blocks just to have his signature, but a booksigning now might only get six people. “I have a 6 million following,” he said quietly, “and they don’t remember me.”
This is the popular Tracy Hickman, author of the famous DragonLance series, neither of which I've ever heard of (of course!!), but suggests the industry is changing even for the big money makers. He makes one-fourth what he made in the "good old days" of publishing. The crowded marketplace.

Read the article.