think I’ll buy a helmet store, all for myself…
…ifyeez follow me on Facebook, yeez may have seen this posting of mine lately, which picked up a lot of traction:
…‘I’m holding a committee meeting right now with my proofreader, my editor, my Kindle formatter, my publicist, my agent, my marketing officer, my publisher, my promotions person, my accountant, my personal assistant, my distributor, my budget manager, my sales staff…. so counting myself in all of that, we are now ONE person in the meeting… we Indie Self-Publishers rock!’…
…it seems it resonated with tons of other self-publishing quill-scrapers among the Lads and Lassies of Blog Land… at the same time I read a different article on Facebook where sumb’dy opined, basically, that self-publishers aren’t really writers or professional authors… the torrent of vitriolic disagreement to that lad’s diatribe was superb… for this ol’ Jurassic, it merely underscored the amount of work and invested time we New Age breed of independents sink into our scribbling craft… marry that with my tongue-in-cheek list above of melded roles and duties I assume as a self-publisher and yeez start to understand why so many folks railed against the other guy’s nonsense… there’s a certain point yeez cross when yeez don the mantle of an independent scrivener… that ‘choice-at-the-crossroads’moment when yeez decide to go the whole nine yards with this fabulous writing business… there is no in-between… ye’re in for either 0% or 100%… I’m happy to be totally immersed in it… my interaction with fellow authors tells me I’m not alone in this… the onset of marketing books on the internet and the eBook phenomenon have moved on considerably from the ‘…it’s-tantamount-to-Vanity-Press-stuff’…and ‘…it’ll never catch on’… to become a powerful force that’s rapidly changing the traditional approach to book publishing… please don’t mistake what I’m saying here… I am not knocking the traditional publishing route… it still runs half of all book publication world-wide… but I believe that industry’s leaders are now alive to the presence (and their own commercial opportunities within it) of a vast global eBook market… as Master Bob Dylan once proclaimed… ‘…don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall…’ …now if yeez’ll excuse me, I’m off for another hat fitting… see yeez later…
