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[posteverything]

"we're either on top of the mountain or we're down in the valley"That's the phrase I remember best from the days when Nick Flint and I would meet at a place called "Crabapple Creek", which was our unofficial name for a very minor tributary that acts as a border between an anonymous suburban park and an overpriced subdivision filled with the usual

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[ex_juandave]

I really think that you and threepennies should both be published.

I keep hitting people up, but no one knows anyone.....

If I were you, I wouldn't self-publish. When I hear of someone who vanity-published I immediately don't want to read it. Not necessarily good of me to be that way, but I am. You should have the recognition that comes with being published the right way.

[analogous_sam]

i have to respectfully disagree.

i don't equate self-publishing as vanity at all. if anything it might be considered a sensible step on the way to being published by someone else, because you're more presentable in that format. and recognition, while necessary, isn't the main objective, quality output comes first. if that takes independent control to get off the ground then so be it.

far better to be recognized for one's own merit, than for a watered down, edited shadow of one's efforts..

by all means take this with a pinch of salt - i've never published or been published.

[ex_juandave]

"Vanity publishing" is a term that has been around as long as books have. It's for those who can't get published.

I don't want Jay to move over to that group. He shouldn't have to. Being published will bring with it recognition, validation, and reason for celebration. All of which he should have.

Take a look at The Modern Library's list of 100 greatest works of fiction of the 20th Century. I don't think that these are watered down, edited shadows of one's efforts.

[analogous_sam]

i'm just arguing the case of 'by any means necessary'. - but i hear and admire your concerns.

how fucked up is the publishing industry compared to say the music industry? how different are major houses from independents? i've seen plenty of good bands get knocked down ahead of their time for not 'meeting targets' (major labels)..

as such i'd stake a gamble that publishing might operate along similar lines? - this is as much a question as it is anything else....

[posteverything]

How nice of you to say that, John David, thank you..and the fact threepennies hasn't been published yet mystifies me

[ex_juandave]

Haha. No steak as of yet.

I'm not understanding how it works either really. The world is papered with shitty books. How the hell did those people get published?

I think you're a great writer and it will happen for you one day.

Don't print your own book. Ew.

oh you kid

[posteverything]

As a fellow veternarian, I beseech you to not turn your back on the movement and eat steak. You don't eat steak, I won't self-publish. Deal? Deal.

Suzanne Somers is a published poet..yes, that Suzanne Somers, while Google suggests a possible mispelling of my last name.