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The publishing specialist Jane Friedman asks authors to reconsider a widely popular trend toward self-publishing as a means of attracting a traditional contract. “A serious epidemic of impatience,” she calls it.

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While “women’s fiction” is an actionable classification in much of publishing today, one author points out that there’s no such common categorization for men. Could sales be hurt, not helped, by the implied limitations of “women’s fiction”?