The good news is..... bloggers have an agent!
Suddenly, books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon. You will probably read about it in the Sunday Times. And when that happens the person to thank -- or blame-- will be Kate Lee, who is currently a twenty-seven-year-old assistant at International Creative Management.The Bad News is.... she's clueless!
...[W]hile she loves her bloggers, and has faith in them, it can be difficult to get them to be productive. “They all have day jobs,” she pointed out. Writing anything longer than a blog post is a commitment they don’t always seem up for. “Anyway, I’ve started working with a couple of graduates of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. It’s very exciting. They’re interesting writers—with training, and degrees to show for it.”As in: "Training and degrees and bears, oh my!"
Clue for Kate: If you want to find one institution that has been responsible for more bad and boring novels written in the key of existential distress on the anomie of modern life, the Iowa Writers Workshop is the place to go. If you want to have small commissions and lose money for publishers, sign up a lot of these Iowa schnorrers.
If you want to have fun, do good and do well, back the bloggers. You've a better shot at making serious money and changing the world with one blogger than a dozen Iowa cornporn producers.
Via-- The Talk of the Town
Posted by Vanderleun at May 24, 2004 1:08 PM | TrackBack