Don't get depressed: A writer's guide to surviving the recession
The best advice is #7 ~~t
As 2009 gathers momentum, winter turns to spring, and the outlook continues to seem as bleak now as it did two months back, the recession is beginning to take chunks out of the book business. The mood on Grub Street is turning sour.
HarperCollins has announced redundancies; Penguin and Random House are reported to be cutting back their publishing programmes. More broadly, the air of crisis that's been palpable throughout British and American journalism for some months appears to be spreading to the world of books.
It's my belief that, in a downturn, books are more resilient than, say, banking; but there is still that urgent question: What can writers and journalists do about the recession? The short answer is: not much. We are passive spectators, not masters of the universe (at least in the short term).
Still, in the spirit of optimism for which this blog is noted, I've come up with Seven Principles for Surviving the recession.
As 2009 gathers momentum, winter turns to spring, and the outlook continues to seem as bleak now as it did two months back, the recession is beginning to take chunks out of the book business. The mood on Grub Street is turning sour.
HarperCollins has announced redundancies; Penguin and Random House are reported to be cutting back their publishing programmes. More broadly, the air of crisis that's been palpable throughout British and American journalism for some months appears to be spreading to the world of books.
It's my belief that, in a downturn, books are more resilient than, say, banking; but there is still that urgent question: What can writers and journalists do about the recession? The short answer is: not much. We are passive spectators, not masters of the universe (at least in the short term).
Still, in the spirit of optimism for which this blog is noted, I've come up with Seven Principles for Surviving the recession.
posted by temporal at 3/21/2009
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