dol·drums
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a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression.“the mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years”
synonyms: inactive, quiet, slow, slack, sluggish, subdued, stagnant, static, inert, flat, dull “the property market is in the doldrums”antonyms: busy, lively -
an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.
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As PG was looking over yesterday’s posts and searching for some new items today, he was reminded that a significant portion of the book business (at least that part mentioned in the trade press) slows/shuts down during the summer.
This is a quaint throwback to an earlier, more gentile, trust-fund era of publishing in which seasons were a perennial marketing theme for Big Publishing.
June began the time for promotions for “summer reads”, frothy little bits of books that wouldn’t be seriously harmed by collecting some sand between the pages and paired well with a gin fizz.
PG will continue to endeavor (or endeavor to continue) to locate and post items of interest to authors, but, as always, appreciates suggestions for interesting articles from the readers of TPV. Feel free to use the Contact Button at the top of each page of the blog.
This one describes my life lately. I need to hunt down an antonym!
The summer doldrums in NYC publishing has considerably more to do with the days before air conditioning when it was beyond miserable and various health dangers were prevalent than the wealth of those in publishing. Everyone in business who could leave NYC for the summer or could have shorter business days/weeks left NYC.