It’s 1939 at Random House. Break out the tuba. It’s time for a little goose-stepping around the padded cell.

It’s sad that big Publishing houses and Agents don’t realize that their days are numbered.
Karma is going to turn around and bite them and Slush Piles will become a bittersweet memory. Sooner than you think…

What K.T. Buchanan says is absolutely right. In fact not only is it going to be sooner than people thing, it’s already started. It started out at the edges as writers started putting their own e-books out independently, and came in from the fringes. Look at J A Konrath, putting his own back titles through Smashwords and earning far more self-publishing than he could with a traditional publisher. Now a major agency has realised the same thing. And this won’t be just a last minute decision, they will have deliberated long and hard with their authors about this.

Publishers will have to change or die.

Publishers will also have to Skate or Die!

Skate or Die 3: The Bandwagon

- Navigate an internet somehow even more polluted with terrible writing that no one really wants to read — let alone pay for.

- Arm yourself with your skateboard of choice, and an e-reader loaded with “books” containing inexplicable amounts of ellipses.

- Watch sadly from the sidelines as your Harry Potter fan-fiction / obvious masturbatory fantasy continues to be ignored, even outside of the slush pile!

Sounds like fun to me!

But do we really want to have to wade through the slush ourselves? I think, in many ways, editors are a godsend precisely because they do some of that work for us.