Robert Vaughan is an indie publisher and writer whose most recent book, Askew, can be ordered here. If found a lot of his opinions fascinating, especially coming from someone who sits on both sides of the table. Among his bits of advice: to figure out where to pitch your stuff, find three or four writers you like and with whom you feel some commonality, and pitch the places that are publishing them. (This seems obvious, but most people go about it exactly the other way around -- they find publishers or agents they like and then try to figure out which writers they work with.) He also said something great about genres -- that they're great for bookstores (but not necessarily for writers!)
