Episode 287: Arley Sorg
About this episode
Arley Sorg discusses the challenges of being a beginning writer and the intricacies of the publishing industry.
Bite into General Tso's Bok Choy with Arley Sorg as we discuss the difficulty in getting the help you need as a beginning writer when you don't know what you don't know, the serendipity that got him a job at Locus , how to inhabit the community that is while envisioning the community that could be, why an agent might prefer in-person pitches over email, the importance of doing things without an agenda, the way we learned to deal with both rejecting and being rejected, how to make sense of the myths and rumors of science fiction publishing, why he feels comfortable in his role as an agent, plus much more.
More episodes of Eating the Fantastic
- Episode 286: Somto Ihezue
- Episode 285: Mark L. Van Name
- Episode 284: Octothorpe's John Coxon and Alison Scott
- Episode 283: John Jarrold
- Episode 282: Charles Stross
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