5 questions aspiring authors should ask themselves now | The Bookseller

Yes, there's more noise out there than ever. Yes, publishers are inundated with submissions, and the Amazon marketplace seems to become more opaque and complex by the day. Yes, review space in the mainstream press is being squeezed yet again, social media can be a scary sandpit, and frenzied discounting makes it seriously hard to turn a buck.

But amongst the writers I met there was also a real sense of opportunity. In a, ahem, troubled world, telling your unique truth feels more important than ever, and there's a tangible public hunger for diverse stories that have historically slipped through publishing's cracks. Our early 'web 2.0' utopianism may have faded, but innovation fresh routes to market continue to open up for entrepreneurial storytellers unafraid to seek them out.