Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Too Many Books Spoil The...


Dear Dead Beat,


What do you think about the recent debate as to whether there are too many books being written?


Spoiled For Choice


Dear Spoiled For Choice,


Walk into any bookstore and look around. Your answer is already there. Dead Beat quite honestly gets frightened in those places.


There are far too many books already written. There is little need for any more. Any self-respecting bookstore would have half a dozen shelves and the cream of the crop. And yet it seems we know of little else to do. So we tap at the keys and smudge the page.


This is why we need to be so severe on ourselves. Send out for publishing only that deserving of being published, and believe you me that is very little indeed.


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