Welcome to Ungrateful Author!

This blog is intended to be a tool of empowerment for all writers and authors. I"m an anonymous best-selling author who is a weary of the way authors and writers are often treated by people who should be their advocates, i.e. agents, editors and oddly enough, their fellow writers.

I hope this blog will educate authors about their role in the publishing world and be a voice of the author in the blogosphere. There are countless agent blogs and a few editor blogs but I can't think of a single author advocate blog. Authors often remain silent about publishing matters because they don't want to make waves.

Having been involved in the publishing word for over ten years; I can tell you that a). the writer is the low man on the totem pole (superstar writers being the exception) and is considered by many agents and editors--certainly not all- as a necessary evil b.) if writer complains about anything at all they are said to be "ungrateful."

As a writer you are supposed to be grateful just to be published. Authors hear this over and over again. They hear it from their agent and editor. Sadly they also hear it from fellow writers who haven't yet been published

Authors work for years and years on their craft with no compensation. When they get published it's because they've earned it. No one tells agents and editors that they should be grateful for their jobs, Writers should be afforded the same respect. Unfortunately they rarely are,

The goal of this blog is not to post lots of whiny woe-is-me posts but to be a voice for writers and to be able to openly discuss some of the things most authors find troublling about the publishing business. Stay tuned!