Self-Publishing...brief thoughts.
Does a writer want to spend their life writing words that no one will see? Before I became a game publisher I had hundreds of articles published in magazines from Playboy to Alaskan Air (are they still around?). It was great, it paid the bills. That part of my life passed as I developed my game publishing company.
Now I write fiction. Good fiction, better than most of the published material that I read. If an editor doesn't see it that way, that's cool, if several don't see it that way, that's fine too, but I refuse to throw it in a drawer. I'll publish it myself. Yep, maybe only 500 people buy it, but that is 496 more than the four editors that rejected it. And if ten of those readers tell me they really enjoyed it, I guess I've done some good. -Mark
Does a writer want to spend their life writing words that no one will see? Before I became a game publisher I had hundreds of articles published in magazines from Playboy to Alaskan Air (are they still around?). It was great, it paid the bills. That part of my life passed as I developed my game publishing company. Now I write fiction. Good fiction, better than most of the published material that I read. If an editor doesn't see it that way, that's cool, if several don't see it that way, that's fine too, but I refuse to throw it in a drawer. I'll publish it myself. Yep, maybe only 500 people buy it, but that is 496 more than the four editors that rejected it. And if ten of those readers tell me they really enjoyed it, I guess I've done some good. -Mark
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