Actually, I Like My Traditional Publisher or “You Leave My Dill Pickle Alone!”

[ursulav]

This will be long. I may ramble. Sideways. Through walls. You’ve been warned.

So in the last few weeks, I have found myself, for whatever reason, tripping repeatedly over things on the interwebs about self-publishing. I didn’t do it deliberately, at least at first, but Google+ makes it easy to fall over this stuff, and then you chase links or read

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[fenris_lorsrai]

Yeah, pretty well.


Also they pissed off a lot of people at the end by constantly spamming them with coupons... that were not honored at the store. COME IN USE THIS COUPON! PSYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYCHE! I had sooooooo many people come into my store and tell me how angry they were about that.

[ursulav]

Ha! Man, I bet that felt good when they wrote it...

[fenris_lorsrai]

Seriously. I DO NOT KNOW BOOKS BY COLOR! The only ones you have a chance of me guessing them by color are purple ones. Ones that are primarily purple are few and far between.

and yes, I hate summer reading too since many of the schools won't give the list until AFTER they have given it to the kids. My town is good and gives it to me two months in advance. it's the bordering towns that NEVER give me the list and I don't see it until it walks in the door. Sorry, everybody got the list the same day, including me. I don't have 10 copies of this. the first one in the door got the ONE used copy I had for $1. I can order you a new one for $8. and you'll have to wait. because your school doesn't think telling the bookstore what to stock would be helpful.