Important to remember that the industry really is a vast sausage machine.
Boxes have to be ticked, agents are exceptionally powerful, and a few big publishers completely dominate what we tend to get to see in the shops,read reviews of, see on shortlists.
Currently, a short history of Robert the Bruce, “ King and Outlaw”,by Scottish academic Chris Brown.
Which, oddly given the basic material, seems to be less depressing that much of todays fiction would appear to be !!
Boxes have to be ticked, agents are exceptionally powerful, and a few big publishers completely dominate what we tend to get to see in the shops,read reviews of, see on shortlists.
Currently, a short history of Robert the Bruce, “ King and Outlaw”,by Scottish academic Chris Brown.
Which, oddly given the basic material, seems to be less depressing that much of todays fiction would appear to be !!
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