Writing and Publishing Fiction

Link #2. Progress on July Novel Writing Month 2009.

Dear—you don't mind if I call you dear do you? Whether you are following William Blake, the self publisher, or Dr. Zaius, publishing fundamentalist, you will want to promote your fiction. If you are self-publishing or subsidy publishing, you will quickly find yourself in street fight brawl. Oh my, you will need to bust knees with a pipe and deliver a proper beat-down with a heavy chain, to get noticed. No one else is going to help you when you are lying in the street in a pool of your own blood, because you came ill-equipped with the marketing tools necessary to survive in the world of self-publishing.

As Minister of Science and Defender of the Faith, I exhort you to heed the Lawgiver and follow the traditional, conventional path to publishing. Preserve a way of life that has served us well for hundreds of years. Do not listen to that self-publisher, William Blake. The self-publisher should be shunned and driven out, if not destroyed outright. Beware the beastly self-publisher, for they are the Print-on-Demand publisher's pawn.

n the days of Washington and Napoleon,
Before Six Sigma and Toyota Motors manufactur'd its infernal machines
according to the edicts of consistency,
I did each copy of my self-published work by hand;
If I saw a need for improvement after two or three copies were scribed,
I simply made the changes on the remaining copies, whether this meant
I was transposing words, lines, verses, pages or plates.
Truly, I was inspir'd by the Artistic & Creativity of Los, Urthona in man's form.

If hand type-setting and engraving your work is a fate you cannot bear,
Subsidy-publishing is perhaps the path for you.
Even the contrivances of the Word Processor & GBC binding machines,
Cannot make self-publishing too great a Task to contemplate
Subsidy-Publishing balances the Contraries of Mass Publishing & Self-publishing.

Online Subsidy and Self-Publishing
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