Winning Writers managing editor Annie Mydla offers her insight and experience as a developmental editor on why writers struggle with the commercial viability of their manuscripts. Read the opening to her excellent blog post below.

My Book Isn’t Selling, But a Market-Friendly Version Wouldn’t Be “Mine”

What happens when the idea of writing a market-friendly book feels like a survival threat?

—Annie Mydla, Managing Editor

Over six years and hundreds of novel and memoir critiques, I’ve noticed something surprising:

Many of the writers who struggle to write a market-friendly book simply don’t want to.

I don’t just mean they don’t want it enough. I mean that the idea of writing a book with commercially viable craft characteristics feels like a survival-level threat.

They don’t want to write a market-friendly book in the same way I don’t want to be eaten by a bear.

Find the entire article on Winning Writers here.

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