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Most folks who visit The Deepening don’t realize that it’s a relatively new (a few months old) project. I use that word “project” because it is a work-in-progress, not a “done deal,” poured in hardened concrete. It may, in fact, never turn to stone, but always be a work-in-progress, simply because the business of fiction evolves constantly. That’s the nature of creativity and its result.
For decades, publishing was rather strictly institutionalized. (It still is in a lot of ways.) As it became more and more monopolized, it also became less about good books and more about block-buster bottom lines, so much so that, today, if you are a celebrity, famous or infamous, haloed or criminal, whether you can write or not, you are guaranteed to land a top agent and, with that, a hefty, and I mean million-dollar, advance for your yet unpenned literary venture.
Enter the age of the Internet, e-books, PODS, and the independent publisher and author. Enter into the chaos as well as the power of the masses to sway what will and what will not fly. Oh, certainly the industry moguls work their muscle to influence what the consumer “should” buy, but, more and more, it’s a whole bunch of “little” guys and gals — you and me — who make or break a novel’s chances to hit best seller status. This is a good thing. But it’s also fraught with problems…like, as Cory Doctorow so pointedly observes, “obscurity.”
The Deepening is here to help battle obscurity. It’s here to help readers find good fiction. And, of course, if readers are helped, so are authors and their book publishers, so therefore we’re here to help authors and publishers, too.
Want in on opportunity? If so, stay tuned.
