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May 20, 2011By Michael Cader

Neal Pollack On Self-Publishing His Next Novel–And Keeping His Agent

May 20, 2011By Michael Cader

Neal Pollack is the latest traditionally-published author to give self e-publishing a try this September, for his next novel JEWBALL, “a funny, gritty noir about a barnstorming Philadelphia Jewish basketball team in the late 1930s who battle for supremacy on and off the court under the growing shadow of anti-Semitism. He writes about it in the Sunday Times Book Review, with less fire and brimstone than some authors who have gone the same route: “For a writer like me, which is to say, most working writers — midcareer, midlist, middle-aged, more or less middlebrow, and somewhat Internet savvy — self-publishing […]

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