Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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.

2 comments:

Kauri Bookend said...

Great fun Graham - thanks for posting this. For your amusement I have drawn up my own New Zealand Top twenty...1. Unity Books Auckland and Wellington: Simply the best
2. Bill Manhire : Done more to raise the quality of NZ Fiction and Poetry than anyone else
3. Geoff Blackwell : Shame he isn’t running one of the local multi-nationals. He should be
4. Lloyd Jones : Our pre-eminent novelist with a five star track record.
5. The Editors: especially Barbara Larson, Jane Parkin and Anna Rogers: Making good books better.
6. Neil Cross{Wellington]: Lead writer on Spooks, creator of Luther, author of nine great books including the Booker listed Always the Sun
7. The other independent booksellers: apart from that grumpy bugger in Timaru.
8. The Reps- a diminishing breed but still a vital link between publishers and booksellers who care.
9. Karen Ferns – keeping Random House head and shoulders above the rest.
10. Neil Hyndman – proving it is possible to make real money out of publishing.
11. The Agent – Ray Richards. Are there any others?
12. Tony Fisk – probably the smartest MD in NZ Publishing – why isn’t he Prime Minister?
13. The team at Craig Potton – Carrying the flag for quality small publishers after the disappearance of Godwit, Shoal Bay, Tandem, Longacre and Mallinson Rendell
14. Bill and Phil [Noble and King] University Booksellers Supreme
15. Publishers – The Magnificent Seven : Harriet Allan, Fergus Barrowman, Jane Connor, Sam Elworthy, Nicola Legat, Rachel Scott, Bridget Williams. Quality rules.
16. Elizabeth Knox : An author with a great depth and breadth of talent and a hard-won international reputation
17. Joan Mackenzie : Has it in her power to make a real difference for New Zealand Publishers. I am sure she will use it wisely
18. Maurice Gee: now why hasn’t he been knighted?
19. The bloggers: especially Rachel King, Vanda Symon, Chris Bourke, Auckland and Christchurch libraries. Oh alright – also that Beattie chap.
20. The readers – where would be without them??

Theresa N. said...

The publishing end...I'd rather have my print books and I sincerely hope the Pulitzer voting is not that !@#$.
Theresa N
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