Comments on: How To Get Your Book Published: Interview With Ian Coburn, Part 1 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/ Personal Development for Polymaths Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:02:12 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: The Chinese guy http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-72150 The Chinese guy Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:32:12 +0000 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/?p=1945#comment-72150 Getting published is incredibly easy..... even £0 if you are willing to pay more for printing, and your book is published ISBN and all. The difficulty of publishing is marketting and getting it out there to the wider world. You can write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it then it will sell nothing. Often it is the media machine behind it which is even more important than the book itself. Steig Larsson for example wrote a trilogy of books Men who hate women.. These books are absolutely horrible, the prose is lousy, they are cliche ridden clunky books which have 400 pages of exposition and go into far too much detail... It is currently in the amazon top 10 because the marketting machine is behind it. And he managed to get into the magic niche. Douglas Coupland is exactly the same, he wrote three good books: Generation X Hey Nostradamus Elenor Rigby The rest of his books are absolutely terrible cliche ridden re-writes of his old books, he has been cruising on his prior fame for the past 15 years. But he too is in the magic niche. The magic niche is nasty, Shakespeare has been in it for the past 200 years, it is where terrible books people will say they are good for fear of being seen stupid, and thus will recommend it and say to others if you don't understand it then you must be stupid (implied) Getting published is incredibly easy….. even £0 if you are willing to pay more for printing, and your book is published ISBN and all.

The difficulty of publishing is marketting and getting it out there to the wider world. You can write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it then it will sell nothing. Often it is the media machine behind it which is even more important than the book itself. Steig Larsson for example wrote a trilogy of books Men who hate women..

These books are absolutely horrible, the prose is lousy, they are cliche ridden clunky books which have 400 pages of exposition and go into far too much detail… It is currently in the amazon top 10 because the marketting machine is behind it. And he managed to get into the magic niche.

Douglas Coupland is exactly the same, he wrote three good books:
Generation X
Hey Nostradamus
Elenor Rigby

The rest of his books are absolutely terrible cliche ridden re-writes of his old books, he has been cruising on his prior fame for the past 15 years. But he too is in the magic niche.

The magic niche is nasty, Shakespeare has been in it for the past 200 years, it is where terrible books people will say they are good for fear of being seen stupid, and thus will recommend it and say to others if you don’t understand it then you must be stupid (implied)

]]> By: Hunter Nuttall http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-56101 Hunter Nuttall Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:58:18 +0000 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/?p=1945#comment-56101 @ Fernande, I don't think Ian said anywhere that getting published is easy. It's easier if you take the right approach, but certainly not a cakewalk. And I'm not sure how paying thousands to a psychologist is supposed to help you get published. @ Gayle, I guess the problem is that most of the people reading this post are not published authors, so they don't have anything to add. Hopefully we'll pick up some more comments over time. @ Fernande, I don’t think Ian said anywhere that getting published is easy. It’s easier if you take the right approach, but certainly not a cakewalk. And I’m not sure how paying thousands to a psychologist is supposed to help you get published.

@ Gayle, I guess the problem is that most of the people reading this post are not published authors, so they don’t have anything to add. Hopefully we’ll pick up some more comments over time.

]]> By: Gayle Gruell http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-56011 Gayle Gruell Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:47:44 +0000 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/?p=1945#comment-56011 I am surprised there are not more responses in here....please if anyone has other views or points to bring out about the post please share as i am intrigued in the subject..... I am surprised there are not more responses in here….please if anyone has other views or points to bring out about the post please share as i am intrigued in the subject…..

]]> By: Fernande Schoenberger http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-55912 Fernande Schoenberger Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:27:16 +0000 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/?p=1945#comment-55912 I just can't under any circumstance find that it's this easy. I know metric loads of desperate fellows who will pay thousands to a psychologist and result with nothing as a result. I don't like challenging this, but why don't you defend your laws or at least provide a better way of explanation of your argument here? I just can’t under any circumstance find that it’s this easy. I know metric loads of desperate fellows who will pay thousands to a psychologist and result with nothing as a result. I don’t like challenging this, but why don’t you defend your laws or at least provide a better way of explanation of your argument here?

]]> By: How To Get Your Book Published: Interview With Ian Coburn, Part 2 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-44887 How To Get Your Book Published: Interview With Ian Coburn, Part 2 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:33:06 +0000 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/?p=1945#comment-44887 [...] [Hoping to get your book published? Here is the continuation of yesterday's interview with Ian Coburn.] [...] [...] [Hoping to get your book published? Here is the continuation of yesterday's interview with Ian Coburn.] [...]

]]> By: craig zabransky http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-get-your-book-published-interview-with-ian-coburn-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-44793 craig zabransky Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:08:32 +0000 http://hunternuttall.com/blog/?p=1945#comment-44793 A few good insights. I'll be back for part II. stay adventurous, Craig A few good insights. I’ll be back for part II.
stay adventurous,
Craig

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