The Author Guy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve (Oct 16, 2024)
16th October 2024 Hello out there, Welcome back. Last week, I whined a little bit about the elongated timeline before my next book will be released. Okay, maybe more than a little bit. But I’m over it, and moving on in a different direction with my writing. My fifth novel, working title For the Love of Charley Chaplain , is with the publisher, but given what I now understand to be their timelines, it likely won’t be in reader’s hands until the end of next year. So, all things considered, I’m way ahead of the game and I’ve satisfied my two-book commitment when I signed an exclusive contact. Sometimes things that appear disappointing can in fact work out nicely. Here’s how. In my considerable (and on-going) research into the publishing industry over the past ten years, I’ve found ample evidence that reading for relaxation, entertainment and/or escapism – the hallmarks of fiction reader motivation – has diminished down to about, on average, thirty minutes a day. Couple that with the sea c...