It wasn’t really until I saw a publishing agent being interviewed on BBC this morning about being recently unemployed (a felt a tiny twinge of malicious glee- I am sure this doesn’t really make me an evil person) that I considered the impact the recession might be having on publishers. I did a little digging and found well yes, unsurprisingly, it has been having the effect that it would do on any other sector- less investment in new talent, people being more risk adverse, and greater reliance on proven money makers…
Somehow you forget writing is ultimately a business for people on the publishing end. It is not their aim in life to uncover the next Victoria Lucas but to make some dough….
