new frontier

     Having a book published is not how I envisioned it.  By now I should be living in a penthouse drinking martinis -- shaken, not stired.  Or having a beer with Stephen King or James Patterson talking about what our next project would be.  Instead I'm standing on a street corner with a sign that says, WILL WRITE FOR MONEY.
     Some would say that I should have went the traditional route and not self publishing, after all isn't that vanity press?  Yes.  The way I see it 99% of all publishing is vanity.  Do you think Stephen King said I'm just going to sit down here and write, because it makes me feel good?  I don't care if it's ever published.  I doubt it.  Does he enjoy writing?  I'm sure he does, but that doesn't take away the vanity aspect.
     I can't rightly judge my own work.  I'll let someone else do that.  But what I've found in the self publishing world is that you have a lot of bad work and some really good work, so you can't rightly judge a work by the publisher.
     Besides trying to write a good book, my emphasis now is on getting reviews on my books already out there.  I don't just ask for the good reviews, (although they do make me feel warm and fuzzy) I want to hear the bad ones as well so I know what to work on. 
     For me self publishing is a new frontier.  I've had to learn a lot in the last few months.  That's why this website looks rather plain.  But I'm working on it.  Six months ago about the only thing I could do on a computer is type up a manuscript.
     I guess I've droned on long enough and said very little.

Till next time,
Gary