http://www.akwbooks.com/authors/authorblog/blog/2010/08/17/dont-fight-current-tastes/ The art of story telling and marketing what you write Fri, 18 May 2012 05:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.akwbooks.com/authors/authorblog/blog/2010/08/17/dont-fight-current-tastes/#comment-4160 John Bowers Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:19:58 +0000 http://www.akwbooks.com/authors/authorblog/blog/?p=893#comment-4160 Dead on, Allan. In today's market, people like Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dickens and Twain would never get out of the slush pile. Their writing style violates all the modern conventions. Some of the classic authors might not have succeeded in their own era if they'd had access to today's technology--there were so few writers back then that I suspect almost anyone could have been published. Dead on, Allan. In today’s market, people like Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dickens and Twain would never get out of the slush pile. Their writing style violates all the modern conventions. Some of the classic authors might not have succeeded in their own era if they’d had access to today’s technology–there were so few writers back then that I suspect almost anyone could have been published.

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