PUBLISHING A Writer's Memoir

If you're a fan of Gail Godwin's novels and are specifically interested in the details of their composition, agenting, editing, and promotion, this audiobook will satisfy you fully. Rosemary Benson delivers an expert and simpatico reading of a text that may have limited interest for others. It works best in conveying Godwin's own outlook and sensibilities. Aspiring writers probably won't gain much insight into the publishing business--except for learning that, even for the most successful of writers, the author rarely gets her druthers. Plot, characters, even titles and cover art, are open to contradiction, and only rarely, and only if one is very successful, does the author get her way. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2015]