THE FIELD OF PUBLISHING IS CHANGING

OR WHY I STARTED A SUBSTACK

The last time I attended BEA, Book Expo America, the largest convention for publishing in the US, was the last time I was ever going to be asked to attend.

It was years ago, don’t ask me even what year, sometime around 2007 or so, and I was on a panel about ebooks. At the time, the ebook revolution hadn’t really hit. Baen, my regular publisher, had gotte…