Here are my predictions for publishing in 2009:
January
Anita Silvey won't be happy with this year's Newbery, either.
February
There'll be no federal bail-out of anyone's backlist.
March
Books will have to be more beautiful and skillfully made to deserve ink and paper.
April
Anyone who does go to Bologna/Comic-con will find a treasure.
May
Authors will outnumber booksellers at BEA.
June
Jo Rowling will announce her next project -- a "cozy mystery."
July
See April.
August
Obama will have disappointed us from time to time.
September
Something (surely!) will be the next Twilight/Wimpy Kid.
October
One significant publishing company will close its doors right before Frankfurt.
November
Bowen Press will be thankful not to have been that publishing company (tempting fate, I know).
December
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January
Anita Silvey won't be happy with this year's Newbery, either.
February
There'll be no federal bail-out of anyone's backlist.
March
Books will have to be more beautiful and skillfully made to deserve ink and paper.
April
Anyone who does go to Bologna/Comic-con will find a treasure.
May
Authors will outnumber booksellers at BEA.
June
Jo Rowling will announce her next project -- a "cozy mystery."
July
See April.
August
Obama will have disappointed us from time to time.
September
Something (surely!) will be the next Twilight/Wimpy Kid.
October
One significant publishing company will close its doors right before Frankfurt.
November
Bowen Press will be thankful not to have been that publishing company (tempting fate, I know).
December
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Any ideas for December, or corrections/changes/additions gratefully received. I'd especially like to be right, however, about November.
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4 comments:
Hee. That was snork-worthy on many levels.
Love it! Very funny
For December, "Our Jo will print ten copies of that cozy mystery on her very own personal Gutenberg press and on Christmas Eve she will read the first chapter from one of these to the two Obama girls at the White House."
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