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There is a fair amount of \u2013 understandable \u2013 authorial concern about what publishers actually want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do they just want to follow the same-again-but-slightly-different formula? So if werewolves and vampires are all the rage, are publishers cynical enough simply to want a same-again W + V story but with a twist (set in an Inuit village, set in Edwardian London, told through the voice of a were-druid)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or are publishers more Zen than that? Do they wait with an open mind, not asking or expecting anything from the next manuscript they open, just waiting to see if this new tale feels new and amazing and just insistent <\/em>on being published?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because there\u2019s reasonable support for both hypotheses, you\u2019ll see plenty of online chat amongst writers debating this question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the answer is simple, and encouraging. It\u2019s simply this: publishers operate in both ways. In fact, it\u2019s probably fair to say that nearly all publishers operate in both ways pretty much all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the cookie-cutter approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, publishers like making money and they\u2019re not complete idiots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if they notice were-books selling like hot garlic on a full-moon night, they will naturally want to get their hands on were-books. They\u2019ll operate in precisely the way I\u2019ve just described, applying a two-stage test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Does this book involve werewolves and vampires?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. If so, does it do so in a way that moves the boundary forward in some way? Does this book promise to seem fresh to a reader who\u2019s already deeply steeped in the genre?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    That second question is a complex one, because agents can\u2019t determine the answer in light of books that have already been published. If your book gets taken on by an agent now, it may be 12-18 months before it\u2019s available for sale. So really agents are reading the submissions pile. They\u2019re talking to editors about what they’re acquiring right now. They\u2019re trying to judge from that evidence what will feel fresh in a year or so\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Because agents have access to a much wider data pool than you do, they\u2019re well-equipped to answer that question in a way that you\u2019re not. And \u2013 tough. There\u2019s no workaround, except knowing your genre and writing at what you take to be its leading edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There are times of publishing frenzy when this cookie cutter approach works with an insane intensity. That was true of vampire-lit. It was true of misery-memoirs. It was most astonishingly (but briefly) true of spanking novels, in the wake of 50 Shades Of Grey<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But most genres operate like this, at lower pressure, all the time. A crime editor needs to buy crime books. He or she simply won\u2019t find a dozen astonishing novels a year, so they\u2019ll be perfectly content to buy on the same-but-different basis. And that makes life easy. Cover designers know what kind of designs to use. Marketers know what approach they need to use. Publicists know what doors to knock on. And so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    All that said, no one has ever entered into the books trade in order to pursue a same-but-different approach. It just never happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you hang around with publishers (at glorious festivals like ours<\/a><\/strong>, for example), you\u2019ll hear them talk repeatedly about passion. They all claim that theirs is an industry driven by passion, and it really is. You could work in a vinyl flooring business and have no strong feelings at all about the stuff you make and sell. That is never, ever true of publishing \u2013 not at any level, or in any firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So, publishers do buy cookie-cutter books and they do so all the time and without any sense of shame and they\u2019re perfectly right to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But they also buy the bolts-from-the-blue, the lightning-strikes, the black swans.\u00a0Lincoln in the Bardo<\/em> and Twilight<\/em> and Gone Girl<\/em> and Where the Crawdads Sing,<\/em> and any number of other books that looked at what everyone else was writing and just said, \u201cYeah, don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Now, it\u2019s also true that publishers have to operate under the shadow of the spreadsheet, the invisible maths of profit and loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some editors, faced with something astonishing, will have a failure of faith. Roughly, \u201cYes, I<\/em> liked this, but can I get a minimum of 10-25,000 people to think the same way? I\u2019m not sure. This is weird.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But phooey. Some people are cowards. There are plenty of publishers out there. There are, in fact, for any genre, easily enough editors at easily enough imprints that a really good book will find its home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Here\u2019s a story from film (the quote comes from this Guardian article<\/a><\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As Six Feet Under producer and director Alan Poul recalls: \u201cThe story is that they did a focus group with The Sopranos pilot and it got horrendous reactions. It was one of the lowest-testing focus group scores ever \u2013 people just couldn\u2019t understand the idea of this protagonist who wasn\u2019t super-handsome. Chris [Albrecht from HBO] was faced with the choice of tinkering with it or just putting it on as it was. And he went with the latter. That single decision changed the face of television.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As a group, publishing is more like HBO than not. It\u2019ll take a risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In television, that kind of gutsiness is difficult and rare \u2013 because budgets are big, schedules are small, and failures matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In publishing? None of that\u2019s true. Budgets are piffling. Books are abundant. Failures are so common that it\u2019s the successes which are genuinely unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    From the same article, HBO\u2019s current CEO says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cTo this day, we don\u2019t test things,\u201d he says. \u201cWe don\u2019t do research about what sorts of shows we should make or what talent we should work with. It\u2019s never been something that HBO has relied on. For me, it\u2019s just been: \u2018Is this a good show? Do we like it? Does it feel different?\u2019”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In TV, that\u2019s so unusual, they write articles about it. In publishing, it\u2019s completely standard. No one ever tests. They do conduct research, yes, but (in my sense at least) that\u2019s more because research is something that big corporates feel they have to do. I think the impact of that research is marginal at best. In the end, an editor\u2019s judgement matters more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The moral for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Don\u2019t worry about it. Don\u2019t sweat it. Immerse yourself in your genre, yes. (And if you don\u2019t have a clear genre, just immerse yourself in the kind of books you like. Read lots. Read intelligently.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After that, just write the story that grips you. Let that character invade your head. Find the voice. Believe in it. Write really well. (Craft matters hugely. It\u2019s key.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the end, it just doesn\u2019t matter much whether your book is another cookie from the same mould (but with interesting differences from the last one) or whether it\u2019s genuinely, startlingly different. Both books \u2013 if they\u2019re good enough \u2013 will find a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publishing is a capacious industry. Its appetite is omnivorous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    FEEDBACK FRIDAY \/ Keeping it simple<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Plain vanilla this week, folks. Just give us a passage \u2013 250-300 words, plus a little context – and we\u2019ll give you the best feedback we\u2019ve got. Both barrels of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Please title your post in this format: title \/ genre \/ [anything else we need to know].<\/em><\/strong> That will help others navigate a big old forum with speed. When you’re ready, you can post your work here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Til soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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