Excellent round up on Publishing Houses and their imprints

[ellen_datlow]

In a multi part series, Sarah Weinman, crime fiction writer and columnist and former editor at Media Bistro, is doing a fascinating job examining publishing houses and their imprints, analyzing which work and possibly why not, and which do not.
Publisher Imprint Report Card, Part I



Thanks to Andrew Wheeler

Comments

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

Part 2 is up as well. Thanks for the link :)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I know. I didn't think it necessary to link to every post as it goes up. People can follow the arrows on the site :-)

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Forge, on the other hand...oy. I think of them, I think of midlist authors in a career coma. Even the rare bestselling exceptions stir little excitement.

Ouch!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Ouch indeed. I'm not sure how much power the overall company has over Tor/Forge.

[pgtremblay.livejournal.com]

Interesting, and a little scary. However, her timeline, concerning the decision to make my book a TPO, is inaccurate.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

You should comment and let her know.

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

She has a number of factual errors in the post on Macmillan (the only one I can really comment on publically, that Bloomsbury is a Macmillan imprint, when it's an entirely separate company). I'll be interested to see what she comes up with for other companies where I've worked, but I can't really give her much credibility.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I give her credibility points because her analyzes of the imprint problems seem right on. It's hard to keep track of the independence of various imprints from the outside.