The Face of Publishing in the Future
It used to be that a self-published author fought a stigma; only those who couldn’t make it in the conventional publishing world forked out funds for a basement full of books and a heart full of frustration.
2007
Getting it Right
It isn’t easy, you know. Getting it right, that is. And even when you do you start second-guessing yourself, finding some minor flaw here, something to tweak there, and sooner or later you’re wondering why on earth you thought that ‘thing’ — whatever that thing is — just simply isn’t good enough for anyone to see.
On the Realties of Being a Writer
I remember teaching creative writing through Dufferin County Continuing Education. Every year I’d have about 15-20 students the first week, many starry-eyed with visions of best-sellers dancing in their heads.
The Print on Demand Revolution
Gather any group of writers together and you’ll often hear conversation eventually turn toward annual income, infrequency of royalty statements and payments. Get them in full blow and you’ll find complaints about lack of promotion from their publishers, difficulties with book signings, gripes about contracts, and unreliability of agents.