City Spotlight: Exploring Seattle's Book Ecosystem
“There is a collective need to get work out there. There will always be small presses and publishers popping up,” says Richard Hugo House Program Director Brian McGuigan, who observes that the book ecosystem that Gary Luke pointed to is not retracting but simply going local. “Like eating local, it’s the same with the publishing world. Big houses are publishing more Fifty Shades of Grey, so we have to be more realistic about traditional publishing.” For many, it makes perfect sense to look within Seattle’s growing literary community instead to find homegrown, quality producers to feed the publishing pipeline. BB
Jennifer Worick is the former editorial director of Running Press Book Publishers and becker&mayer! She’s the New York Times-bestselling author of more than 25 books and is also a publishing consultant. Her publishing talks and workshops with Kerry Colburn can be found at bizofbooks.com.
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