A very small number of authors generate a very large percentage of all book sales. The rest of us comprise what is known as the long tail of the publishing industry. When the google book settlement was hot news, there was an effort to quantify just how long that tail might really be. Some of the data that I've seen suggests that there are approximately 4 million unique authors of print books published in the United States. And there are probably millions more professional writers who are writing things other than books, who are screenwriters and journalists, poets and essayists. I'm proud to be a very tiny part of that very long tail. And just a little bit prouder today.
Contemporary Authors is a reference book "that provides information on approximately 112,000 writers in a wide range of media, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama and screenwriting." I learned today that I'm going to be included in the next edition of Contemporary Authors.
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kudos to you! Was that a tail wiggle I just saw!!! Yes, it's Jeff!!
Wow. That's pretty awesome.
Yay!...I think we can slash a couple of other's tires, maybe tell some more that there was a 'mis-print' and then you are down to what...50,000...it is only the size of a small city...my tires are pretty easy to slash by the way as they are bicycle tires...and I would have had to have published something major...which I haven't...
you should be- it fits.
@GoodGuyTheBoss - @jasonwl - @HereLiesNelsontheGreat - @I_once_was -
Thanks.
how exciting!!!!
That is great :)
Kudos to you, Jeff! How exciting!
Woohoo!
Congratulations.
Wonderful!!
@travelerblue - @Shining_Garnet - @Shahrazad1973 -
@joyouswind - @Roadkill_Spatula - @anvilsandedelweiss -
Thanks. It's a little thing, really, but in a world of little things, it's pretty big.
Congratulations! That's pretty exciting!
Congratulations! I hope you celebrate.
Good For You - It's the little things that make the world go round ya know
@guestbrief - @squeakysoul - @mlbncsga - Thank you.
Congratulations. It's nice to know the tail can get shorter.
Malcolm
Congratulations!
When and where will your book signing be held ? Moving on up !!!
You are somebody! Congratulations!
Congrats! That's wonderful.
Congratulations! That's quite an honor.