Well, I jumped in my car and took a not-quite-last-minute trip to St. Louis to visit friends before my two semesters get all kicked into gear. The grad student semester started last week, and the teacher semester officially starts tomorrow with the first full day of classes (although I have been working at it almost full time for a couple weeks now trying to get myself prepared). Posts may well fall off a bit with most every waking moment being occupied by teaching, studying, reading, and writing, but I should be able to make time on the weekends.
In the meantime, allow me to direct you over to Nathan Bransford’s blog, which I read on a regular basis because… well just because. You’ll figure it out when you go there. He is a veritable fountain of information regarding the publishing world, and I enjoy his agent’s perspective on things.
You may have seen in the not-too-distant past a great deal of hubbub over the USA Today article that 25% of Americans didn’t read a single book last year. Nathan says he read about 50, which doesn’t surprise me him being a literary agent and all. I have no clue about last year, but this year I have read 22 so far. I’ll likely top out somewhere around 30, since I am bound to slow down now that I am, you know, employed.
I have a theory on the reasons for this, but I figured I would prime the pump here a bit with a quick post to get you in the mood and make the longer post this weekend.
So what about you? Do the USA Today stats hold up for you?
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