Who: Elaine Ash
What: She edits career authors as well as emerging talent. BESTSELLER METRICSÂ is her first how-to book. It’s also a patent-pending software in development for the publishing industry.
Where: Los Angeles
Interview conducted by email. Some questions and answers have been edited.
As a fiction writer, you have published short stories, novelettes and novels. What was the inspiration to write BESTSELLER METRICS?
The inspiration came from editing novels for many years. I saw the same problems affecting novelists who were working incredibly hard to get published. Ten years ago I thought Oh, I’ll come across a book that talks about those issues one of these days. But no matter how hard I searched, that book never came along. A year or so ago I realized that if I didn’t do it myself, it wasn’t going to get done. So I got busy.
