- Tue May 27, 2014 1:17 pm
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Having a "name", even one with no previous association with writing, should be a significant leg up when it comes to being published, I'm sure it helped Simon Mayo's YA novel get on the shelves. My take away from this is that after 20+ years as a published critic in a major newspaper Tookey's name nonetheless carries zero weight in the publishing world.
His previous book (a half-arsed collection of pull quotes from film reviewers) was also self published, and prior to that (way prior, 1994) it was a book about film criticism for Pan Macmillan, who I guess weren't clamouring to have him back.
I think he might just be bad at this.
Should have mentioned, this was on his Facebook fan page (no, I'm not a member, I found it via Charlie Lyne)crabcakes_windermere wrote:True, but I assume you didn't then go on to write in a national newspaper about how the explanation for the above was that your work was probably incomprehensible as a result of its brilliant originality and that you were on par with some of the greats of 20th century writing, and then further to plead for customers because despite all that brilliance it appears you couldn't sell shit to a bluebottle.Daley Mayle wrote:He has a point, I have a folder about an inch thick with 'Thanks, but no thanks' rejection letters from every literary agent and publisher in the country. Where I did get an actual comment rather than a photocopied standard fuck off letter it was usually along the lines of the novel not fitting in with their profile.
Having a "name", even one with no previous association with writing, should be a significant leg up when it comes to being published, I'm sure it helped Simon Mayo's YA novel get on the shelves. My take away from this is that after 20+ years as a published critic in a major newspaper Tookey's name nonetheless carries zero weight in the publishing world.
His previous book (a half-arsed collection of pull quotes from film reviewers) was also self published, and prior to that (way prior, 1994) it was a book about film criticism for Pan Macmillan, who I guess weren't clamouring to have him back.
I think he might just be bad at this.
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