By Laurie McLean of Fuse Literary Who could have predicted the bright ray of light that shined on publishing during this pandemic! But it did shine, and will continue to shine, as people rekindle their love of reading and writing! Publishing is more profitable than ever before in its history…for the second year in a […]
Agent Laurie McLean Gives 10 Publishing Predictions for 2021
Publishing Predictions: Laurie McLean Looks in her Crystal Ball by Laurie McLean Hold onto your pens, people…it’s going to be a wild ride. It’s that time of year again. I present to you Predictions in Publishing: the 2021 Edition! It’s hard to believe that last year at this time I was bemoaning the fact that […]
2020 Publishing Predictions: Agent Laurie McLean’s Crystal Ball
2020 Publishing Predictions by Laurie McLean, Co-founder of Fuse Literary Agency Hello again, everyone. I love creating this look-ahead in publishing each year. It makes me pick my head up and take a longer view of the industry than my normal routine of concentrating on the picayune changes in publishing contracts, the art of selling […]
Agent Laurie McLean’s Crystal Ball: Publishing Predictions for 2018
Agent Laurie McLean gives her publishing predictions for 2018. By Laurie McLean, Partner, Fuse Literary My crystal ball is telling me that not a lot in the publishing industry is going to change from 2017 to 2018. I think publishing was mesmerized by Washington politics in 2017 and were slow to make any forward progress […]