From: <swstiles at comcast.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: But Tell Us What  You Know...
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:20:33 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: But Tell Us How You Really Feel ...

> >
> >>>> twhite8 at cox.net 04/26/07 7:00 PM >>>
> >Michael Walsh wrote:
> >
> >>  Meisha Merlin has announced they're closing (see
> >www.locusmag.com, or
> >>  go their website:
> >http://www.meishamerlin.com/meishamerlin.html ,
> >>  which appears to be designed around IE ... don't say
anything,
> >>  please, I beg you ...)
> >>
> >>  One response, the second comment here:
> >>  http://www.meishamerlin.com/meishamerlin.html
> >
I haven't been paying attention to the book publishing scene
in the past many years, but while I was at RavenCon last
weekend I noticed there were nothing *but* small press books
on display in the dealers' room. Just *who* are the major
small press (if that isn't an oxymoron) publishers these
days? And is this a viable alternative for writers, if not
as profitable as the major players, or just a step above the
vanity press?

There seems to have been an explosion in this area, but I
haven't been paying attention (I get the feeling that the
small press *comics* are a debt creating, semi-prozine
proposition).

--Steve