Comments on: Worrying About Being Shunned By Society

By: David Harris-Gershon

David Harris-Gershon — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:51:45 +0000

Lord, no. Your vanity is unparalleled. Mine is simply greater. Hmmm….maybe we should call this The Vain Game.

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:19:27 +0000

Bella, of course I feel your pain. I have a very sad inbox to prove that self-publishing is not easy nor for amateurs. We both know it can be effective, but success is rarely a given.

David, are you saying I’m not vain? Of course I am. If I weren’t, do you think my shoe budget would exceed, well, that’s personal. Vanity, thy name is Booksquare. Hmm, I like that. If I only I didn’t dislike promotional t-shirts. So tacky.

I cannot speak to poetry. After a brief (and, sadly, well-documented) attempt at the genre during my pathetic high school career, I determined that poetry is for nobody. Print-on-Demand, however, is a brilliant distribution method waiting for better execution. Or maybe it’s fulfillment. Yes, fulfillment.

By: Dolen.blogspot.com

Dolen.blogspot.com — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:39:56 +0000

And what about the print-on-demand companies? My fear of unedited muck taking over the planet is gratefully lessened by the knowledge that there aren’t hundreds of copies lying around in grandma’s garage. And a part of me likes the idea of people thumbing their noses at the publishing industry. It’s great for poets.

By: David Harris-Gershon

David Harris-Gershon — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:52:37 +0000

I’m too vain to self-publish. Either that, or I haven’t reached my frustration tippin’ point.

By: James Aach

James Aach — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:27:16 +0000

An short, light-hearted essay discussing how my novel on nuclear power didn’t seem to excite the publishing community, though it had some prominent endorsements, has been posted at http://www.lablit.com/article/83 .

The publishing game is indeed an painful business.

By: SusanGable

SusanGable — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:51:41 +0000

The desserts are better at the grown-ups’ table. (g)

By: Bella Stander

Bella Stander — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:53:46 +0000

So it’s cheap and easy to get your book into print. Swell. Now you have to get people to buy the sucker, which most neophytes don’t realize is just as much–if not more–work than writing it. Too many of them end up like the nice little old lady who called me wanting to know how she could get rid of the hundreds of copies of her memoir that were stacked in her garage. Her minister and her family, she told me proudly, just loved her book. Couldn’t she sell the copies to some publisher? (Um, no…) As a (successful) self-publisher told me, “Publishing is not for the innocent. You have to know what you’re getting into.”