Internet Manifestation

Another day, another fine book close to my heart arrives at the old homestead (I would have taken a nice photo of the physical book as proof, but my camera has gotten all fancy-pants and insists on batteries that aren’t “mostly dead”).  As I mentioned before, I’ve already read the book thanks to my industry insider status.  Technically, it was beta reading, though it was more of a learning experience for me than anything.  You can read more at Carrie’s blog, including other blogs where the book will be chatted about: your Scalzis, your Wendigs, your Robinette Kowals, etc.

Look, I realize that celebrities are going to publish books.  And I realize that they’ll occasionally end up being interviewed about them–just because they’re celebrities doesn’t mean they don’t care about sales, and I don’t begrudge them going for a bit of publicity.  But can interviewers please stop asking them about the publishing process?  And if they are asked about finding agents or the editing process or how many books earn out advances and what that means or whatever, can the authors in question please just admit they don’t know, and don’t need to?

If you’re a movie star who decided to sit down and write a children’s book and got it published in 3 months, you probably don’t have any advice that would be all that useful to the rest of us, is all I’m saying.

Granted, I recently pointed out when Scalzi was wrong about everything, but it is nice to be able to imitate his “New Books and ARCs” feature with all the books that have arrived at my house:

I should also point out that the top book on Scalzi’s pile, there?  I haven’t technically got my grubby hands on that ARC, but I’ve read it also, since I’m like an industry insider and all, and you should too.  You know, later – when the hoi polloi gets its chance.