The big event of the London Book Fair turned out to be a survey that showed that far too many authors are having a really rubbish time of it. The Bookseller published their figures which showed a truly depressing number of debut authors (54%) said they found the experience of being published bad for their mental health.
Now, I was going to write this column about the silence there tends to be from agents on this subject, but Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedman proved me