Hierarchy of Book Publishing The Top 100 (circa 2012)

This is a must read post on the "On Public Relations" blog.  Hilarious and totally entertaining.

Link below to read all 100.

1). Brand-name authors (still)

• Stephen King (since 1974)
• John Grisham (1989)
• Patricia Cornwell (1990)
• Jodi Picoult (1992)
• Nicholas Sparks (1996)
• Jennifer Weiner (2001)
• Etc.

2). Self-published authors with proven track (developing)

• J.A. Konrath (since 2004)
• John Locke (2009)
• Amanda Hocking (2010)
• Brittany Geragotelis (2011)
• Etc.

3). Amy Einhorn’s hair™

4). Authors who have been to Heaven, met God

• Todd Burpo
• Tim Tebow

5). GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

• A Game of Thrones
• A chick who hatches dragons from her vagina
• I never meet women like this

6). Intern assigned to company twitter feed

7). Intern assigned to company tumblr feed

8). SUZANNE COLLINS

• The Hunger Games
• March 23, 2012

9). American Cheerleader Magazine

• See #2, Brittany Geragotelis

10). The Chairmen, Publishers, and Editor-in-Chiefs (still)

• Sonny Mehta, Knopf – handsome, smokes, drinks, spent time in Australian jail, rarely talks or responds to email
• Michael Pietsch, Little Brown – not as handsome as Sonny, practitioner of Bikram, mostly clean track with minor indiscretions (smoking a bone with Keith)
• Jonathan Galassi, FSG – complicated, a poet
• Karp, S&S – now wants to be addressed only by his last name, a real Yenta
• Do they have one at Harper Collins? (checking on this)
• Etc.

Link here to read all 100.