Many Web sites give fiction writers advice on how to get published. This one gives you real information on what “getting published” means in the life of a writer.
This is a research project of The Writing Lab at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
We took a group of 37 writers who published their first novels in spring 1977 and compiled career profiles on them, seeking answers to these two basic questions:
*How did they get your work out to the public?
*How did they make a living?
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Career Profiles of 37 writers |
Context filling in the background |
Comment Interpreting the data |
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The most-published
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The Publishing Business, 1977-2007 An age of transition. |
Charts tell the story of a generation
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They can do and they can teach. |
The Literary Novel, 1977-2007 | Q & A Here's what "they say" about making it as a writer...but are they right? |
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The missing |
Surveying the field, 1977-2007. |
Boiling it all down to some advice |
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Scholar-novelists.
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History of the First Novelists Feature
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So: what does it mean?
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They've got versatility |
What the First Novelists said in '77. |
Links about self-publishing |
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They headed for the Left Coast.
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Blog Post your comments & questions here. |
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They stuck with their genre.
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That's what publishers called it.
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The 37 in alphabetical order
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