Rubie's book is typical of anything related to WM, which
perpetuates so many myths concerning the publishing industry that I
don't know where to start. (For example, the "never use
proportional fonts" myth... if you send a serious trade nonfiction
publisher a book-length ms in a decent proportional font, it won't
care, and as a reader I can't stand footnotes and endnotes in
monospaced fonts.)
In any event, the funniest publishing-for-morons book that I've
seen lately purports to teach the reader how to break into trade
nonfiction magazines. Leaving aside the value of the advice, which
is minimal (it's at best warmed over and a decade out of date,
excepting only that the author has shoved in references to the
Internet and e-mail in every context in which he can think of
them)… it's from a vanity press. Really.
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