#working in publishing working with books

[theghostofashton]

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#pls feel free to disregard this is gonna get sappy for just a sec #i've just been thinking about december 31st last year #went to visit some family i hadn't seen in a long time and i had been actively applying for jobs for like six months #i was miserable everything about it was miserable #and these relatives in particular have always been so supportive of my dreams like. pursuing an english degree #working in publishing working with books #and i remember one of them saying how it had been six months and it may be time to look into something else just to get something #keep trying for publishing but also you need a job so maybe take something you don't want in the meantime #and how deep that cut being from someone who had so strongly supported me for years like #maybe i just needed to pack it up and give in and do something i didn't want because i needed the money #at that moment i was interviewing for my current job and working on an edit test #and a couple weeks later i got an offer #and it has been a year of ups and downs but i love my work literally so much #i have the kindest boss and work with a wonderful team of women and it's just. it's everything i could have ever asked for #even when it's stressful and difficult #and idk that feels significant to me #right as i was about to give up i got exactly what i wanted and so much more #2023 was a lot in so many ways but i will always be so grateful for this year and everything it's given/taught me

[jellybeandrawsthings]

Tall, sunshine and pastels werewolf and her smol goth girlfriend

#wednesday #wednesday netflix #wenclair #wednesday addams #enid sinclair #can't believe these two finally brought me out of my art block #don't worry guys i also have some avatrice art in the works #and by in the works i mean i tought about it and have some ideas but haven't started drawing yet #i'm quite busy #for my publishing class we're supposed to make a whole ass book #so that's eating up most of my time #and that's just ONE class #anyway enjoy the smol and toll gfs

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[zaruba-needslove]

Due to recent issue with some people arguing about how ‘AO3 should have algorithm’ and such... I feel like these tweets need to be shared out more. Saw this tweets thread by chance and I had to admit it's a great advice esp on fic writing or fanworks in general.

[Edit] Also since I noticed this post blowing up, if anyone ever tell you that AO3 doesn’t have a function to RECCOMMEND fics you like to others or read other people’s fic recs on the site point them to this post.

[Edit 2] Check source for the original tweet.

[Edit 3] Not OP, but usually when ppl talk about ‘rude or demanding comments’ it usually refers to those that tend to message fanwriters to write according to what they want to be either on the flow of the plot, shipping, etc to the point of harrassment/toxicity. And that would make writing not be fun anymore for some. 

#fandom #twitter #i mean #it's not that i can't relate cos I was young once too #and used to obsess about getting kudos and comments #but new kids need to understand that there's a reason why fic archives shouldn't work like socmed #ao3 #psa #self reminder when I get concerned abt kudos and comments again #also if you really want ppl to notice your fics... you can actually... promote it? #also in response to 'rude comments' it's more on situations where strangers demand writers to write according to what the readers want and n #or demands asking writers to create something when they didn't want to #which can be excessive #that aside I don't understand why ppl are relating this with published books etc #cos then that'll be a separate issue

[retracexcviii]

Sunday Moon

Hi there dear fellows and Luna lovers. The end of the week is here.

Don't edit this drawing and don't post it anywhere.

What to say about this. The artist knows vnc and has this lovely style I fall for every time.

The lovely artist is @/yuliydominik on Intagram.

#Twitter and everywhere. #vnc #the case study of vanitas #vanitas no carte #luna #votbm #fanart #commission #i bought #dont edit neither publish it anywhere #this #idk what to say for real #first #the style #hjflakjflks #so lovely #i would eat it #and second #i have to start buying commissions from every artist in this fandom #like #have you seen the book? #the details? #insane #and perfect #and Luna is so #la la la lala #amazing work of art #yes i am a fanboy i dont hide it #sunday moon

[cemeterything]

sorry if you’ve read this before and i just haven’t seen you post about it, but the book “hell followed with us” by andrew joseph white seems right up your alley

i need some kind of faq with a section where i explain that i consider andrew joseph white to be a poor writer except when it comes to describing excesses of body horror and gore because people keep suggesting hell followed with us to me and i'm sorry but his books are not good. aside from the vivid descriptions mentioned above they're incredibly devoid of compelling narratives, fleshed out characters or immersive worldbuilding. the guy can come up with some amazing concepts for a story, but his ability to execute them is consistently disappointing. i'm glad he's making money and having fun pursuing his creative passions but his stuff just does not appeal to me at all and frankly makes a hater out of me.

#i would be more forgiving if it werent for the fact that he markets his books as containing diverse representation #but nearly all his character tend to read like they were created using a checklist of things you need to include #in your story to advertise it as such #anyway none of this is to say i want him cancelled or to never make another buck off writing or whatever #but i cannot recommend his existing published works

[repurposedbones]

I keep seeing posts from people talking about their achievements over the past year and feeling left out or inadequate in comparison… apparently I need to go stare dramatically at my own reflection to forcefully remind myself that I did So Much actually and just because it’s not on social media doesn’t mean I’m somehow falling behind!

So here’s to all the people who made it through the year without a camera roll of pictures to show for it, without properly dated art projects, without big events to look back on, with terrible memories of anything that did actually happen, with a sinking feeling of not having enough accomplished, or who generally just didn’t feel great about last year

#I move across the country got a big promotion got MARRIED and am working with my publisher to polish up a draft of a book I finished #and yet I still feel like I didn’t do anything lol #happy new years to all my pals in the same boat

[mxtxfanatic]

Been inundated with posts about the character descriptions in the 7seas mxtx releases, and I just wanna say that I find it the highest level of disrespect how a publisher treated someone’s serious writing that they bought the publishing rights for as a little jokey joke that’s lead to so many people’s misconceptions about said book. Tell me: why do these character sheets include publisher/translator opinions on the characters? Why do these character sheets directly go against what the actual text has to say about these characters? Why do these novels need character sheets?

#mdzs #svsss #tgcf #i am once again hating on 7seas #as having done the most offensive translation work i have ever seen #we don’t have character sheets for 20+ long book series published in english #none of the mxtx novels came with built-in character sheets #so what fucking right did 7seas have to insert them? #when will people who *aren’t* racist #be given the resources and prestige to handle cross-cultural work? #i don’t care how serious or not serious you think any of these books are #someone *made* them #and that act of creation should be treated with the fucking respect that *creating something* deserves #and if you do not want to do that #then don’t go into that line of work

[courtesanmango]

*whispers* hey. this blog is anti censorship. fiction about bad wrong things needs to exist without fear of being banned. there is no clear divide between something that is "bad enough to be banned" and something that is not. thinking that there is, is a slippery slope especially when it comes to anything involving minorities - this way lies perpetuated bigotry. fucked up shit should happen in fiction; never in real life.

#anti censorship #pro ao3 #thats really what started this whole rant #my book comes out this summer too and i know i wouldnt have been able to find a traditional publisher at all #you need to allow bad things to happen in fiction this is just how it works

[modelsof-color]

Zaïr Cheseaux polaroids after top surgery

#I was going to post his first print work after the transition but I did want to publish these pics first #the agencies that previously booked him didn't drop him #it's the fashion industry I promote and support

[lazywitchling]

Look, I have to put a disclaimer up front and say that I really really really enjoy this book from what I've read of it, and I really think this has the potential to be a book that I highly recommend.

But I am 100% going to be petty about the fact that The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft absolutely has stuff yoinked uncredited from Tumblr, so my notebook is definitely going to be filled with things like "Oh he's quoting Neil Gaiman! That's very cool. And I'm impressed that he actually knows how to attribute a quote to the person who said it! I didn't think he knew how to do that!"

I am going to be grumpy about it, and I refuse to be pacified.

[puts nose back in book]

But having a book that is explicitly covering things that too many other books don't say (like the ethics of crystals, predatory mentors, cultural appropriation and the harms that it causes) is very very very nice indeed.

#jes vs witch books #Donnie boy would it kill you to say 'there's a Tumblr post that says...' #would it? would it kill you to link even one single tumblr blog in your works cited section? #I know 'I read it on Tumblr' doesn't exactly sound super professional and knowledgeable to the publishing world but #you DID read it on Tumblr my dude.

[daisywords]

"just focus on book 1 without mapping out the entire trilogy" I need you to understand how much I cannot do that

#and not just bc I'm distractable #because the whole thing needs to cohere!!! #also I'm considering adding back in a major plot point from starlightverse version 1.0 bc maybe 14yo me was onto something after all #anyway I find it baffling how apparently so many authors publish a first book without even having drafts of the next ones? #like if it's a planned series don't you need to write the whole thing at least once before committing???? #how does their process work like does the entire plot come to them all at once like holy vision and then they jsut #write it all in order without changing anything???????? #what if you really needed to change something in the first book to make the ending work but it was already published? #I live in fear

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I'm sure there are many more factors at play than merely the rise of trope publishing and booktok demand, but the older I get, the more content I am with the notion of just. never getting published?

at this current moment, posting my stories fanfic-style on some online platform for the select few who are already invested in them sounds 100 times more appealing and fulfilling than going through all the stress of getting traditionally or self- published only to never hit the shelves of a Barnes & Noble

#- HK #maybe it's just a phase #or maybe it's me realizing that trying to have everything is gonna kill me #and it'll take the joy out of writing in the first place #if I think about it: even though I watch videos from editors about writing work that editors will like #I'm not actually doing it with the expectation that editors will SEE my work. I'm just trying to achieve a professional level of quality #and maybe I only ever dreamt of being published for the feel of the book in my hands or the potential of film optioning #but how much do I care about those things now? not much. not compared to finishing the story. #writing #x #I guess the one exception would be Xander's story because it's middle grade #and kids shouldn't be gallivanting around on the internet

[ms-demeanor]

First day of the new semester, looking through my syllabi.

The final for my 2D design class is to design a book cover.

This is very funny to me.

#i have worked professionally designing print layouts #and have designed covers for two published books

[that-butch-archivist]

source: The Little Butch Book by Lesléa Newman

#lesbian #butch #butch dyke #butch lesbian #dyke #lesbian literature #femme lesbian #lesbian poetry #femme #femme dyke #femme poetry #femme4butch #butch4femme #archived #author: lesléa newman #year: 1998 #publisher: new victoria publishers inc #struggling not to put down every little poem from this book i am easily amused and i love lesléa's work so much #thatbutcharchivist #the little butch book

[hanzajesthanza]

when your friend is writing a fic or analysis it feels like this

#this is a real peak company scene the dynamics all are fermenting wonderfully #that cahir when dandelion yells at him gets up and takes his stuff closer to MILVA #that he just starts listing varieties of writing is so funny. a rhapsody? an epic? a romance? a canzone? #that geralt knows dandelion well enough to know what he's writing #that regis does a pogchamp face because he's so elated about the work #that milva is conspiracy theorist levels paranoid about the writing #also what i find endearing is that i think with regis' comment that half a century is a blink of an eye #is that he intended to. be there. and read the memoir when it was published #to him ig it's like your friend saying they're gonna finish their book in a year and you're like oh yeah cool #regis was marking his calendar to be there at the book signing #if dandelion had a book signing regis would wait in line and when he got to the front dandelion would be like?? #regis you dont need to wait in line we're friends i could just give you a signed copy #regis shrugs like he just wanted the experience of waiting in line. truly a michael goodplace type moment #the elbow-high diaries #f: a hansa's a hansa