Then she moves into the white male-dominated world of Hollywood. In the book publishing industry, you don't even have to see your publisher. You do most of your business through phone, fax, e-mail, and Airborne or Federal Express. However, in Hollywood, unless you're doing a Spike Lee Joint or an Ice Cube flick, you're going to be surrounded by white American professionals anywhere from two to six months while shooting your average film. And it's the same deal with television, sports and with modeling.
Book publishing has a lot more in common with music making.
Both industries push their individual artists to a particular segment of the culture, and that's about it. Well, I'm still a journalist at heart, so I take research very seriously. Sometimes fans forget that writing is a profession. Some people tend to think it's all creativity and no real work. Well, I have news for you, creativity takes real work too.