Seeking serendipity

Apple Blossom Vodkatini 

based on Serendipity Green Apple Sorbet

VISIBILITY and curation are the two big buzzwords of book publishing today. I cannot see myself writing on visibility in this column so let’s talk curation.

And the Archangel Michael Ascended to Hachette Heaven

THE trouble with conventional wisdom is by the time it becomes widespread it is passé.

Take the old saw that a mainstream publisher will never pick up a self-published author. Not true now.