Midlist Books

The Tortoise and the Hare...In Which We Attempt To Rehabilitate the Term "Midlist" starts a series of posts and comments about "midlist", a term missing from this entry and the referred-to blog. About himself, the BOOKANGST 101 blogster says "Mad Max Perkins has worked in the book trade in a variety of capacities for over 20 years and is currently a senior executive for a major New York publisher". I like this quotation, a definition of "midlist books", from one of Max's anonymous commenters:

In publishing as in so many other fields, everyone likes to talk about the stars, not the workhorses that carry the bulk of the load.

The series ends with Advancing the Notion of (...ahem...) Realistic Advances, and on that page are links to the rest of the (previous) posts. I know it's a pain, but Max--could you edit the first page to add links to the subsequent parts of this interesting series? Think of the readers. [Tectags: midlist books publishing writers]

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