Comments on: If there’s a book in you, get it published. http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/ This is my blog about anything and everything. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: curtisbollington http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-46 curtisbollington Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:52:56 +0000 http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-46 Ha! Not any more! Ha! Not any more!

]]> By: PUBLISH A BOOK http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-4 PUBLISH A BOOK Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:16:25 +0000 http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-4 I am pleased that I will have the opportunity to publish a book in the upcoming year, but I still have a way to go before the book hits the shelves. The editor is going to go over the manuscript on a page by page basis. I imagine that this will take a great deal of time. That is not a problem for me. I am a diligent writer and my desire to publish a book is a driving force that will keep me on my toes. I am pleased that I will have the opportunity to publish a book in the upcoming year, but I still have a way to go before the book hits the shelves. The editor is going to go over the manuscript on a page by page basis. I imagine that this will take a great deal of time. That is not a problem for me. I am a diligent writer and my desire to publish a book is a driving force that will keep me on my toes.

]]> By: Chris http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-3 Chris Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:26:34 +0000 http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-3 Ah the "indies" of publishing. I agree that this is a great step up for authors of all sorts to build their dreams in roads off the beaten path. However, barring some new information that will be in your next updates, I think perhaps you're still understating the difficulty involved with private or personal publication. A publisher doesn't just create the books for you, it also provides distribution, merchandising, advertising, and actual venues/merchants who will stock your product. This umbrella comes at great expense, but it also gives your works a notability that self-publishing simply can't compete with. Not to say that I wouldn't love to see more self-published authors, but on the whole, most of them will likely be writing drivel that was refused by a publisher for a reason. The best thing self-publishing allows is a niche by which the small amount of remarkable but unpublished writers will be able to fill. Just how large a niche this is though is my matter of concern. Ah the “indies” of publishing. I agree that this is a great step up for authors of all sorts to build their dreams in roads off the beaten path. However, barring some new information that will be in your next updates, I think perhaps you’re still understating the difficulty involved with private or personal publication.

A publisher doesn’t just create the books for you, it also provides distribution, merchandising, advertising, and actual venues/merchants who will stock your product. This umbrella comes at great expense, but it also gives your works a notability that self-publishing simply can’t compete with.

Not to say that I wouldn’t love to see more self-published authors, but on the whole, most of them will likely be writing drivel that was refused by a publisher for a reason. The best thing self-publishing allows is a niche by which the small amount of remarkable but unpublished writers will be able to fill. Just how large a niche this is though is my matter of concern.

]]> By: Cliff Burns http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-2 Cliff Burns Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:34:40 +0000 http://curtisbollington.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/if-theres-a-book-in-you-get-it-published/#comment-2 No, not everyone has a book in them, no more than anyone can split an atom or explain the theory of relativity. Writing is the hardest work you'll ever do and writing WELL is even more fraught with pain and difficulty. The proliferation of new publishing technologies means a proliferation of BAD WRITERS, all of whom are clogging up the marketplace with their lousy offerings and making it hard for pros to find an editor or publisher who isn't swamped. Good writers suffer...and wannabes get to pretend they're creating something of significance. Sometimes the world isn't fair... No, not everyone has a book in them, no more than anyone can split an atom or explain the theory of relativity. Writing is the hardest work you’ll ever do and writing WELL is even more fraught with pain and difficulty. The proliferation of new publishing technologies means a proliferation of BAD WRITERS, all of whom are clogging up the marketplace with their lousy offerings and making it hard for pros to find an editor or publisher who isn’t swamped. Good writers suffer…and wannabes get to pretend they’re creating something of significance. Sometimes the world isn’t fair…

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