The more I read about Independent Publishing, the happier I am I decided to go that route. Was I scared I would never get published the traditional way? Absolutely. But that didn’t make my decision for me. The fact that traditional publishing seems to be dying? That did.
There was a blog post titled “Why Indie Authors Still Suck,” written by a man or woman who works in Trade Publishing. The post ranted about indie authors putting low quality work into the market, and that is me paraphrasing in the nicest way possible. In the post I’m re-blogging, an Indie Author eloquently and tastefully points out that traditional publishing is scared and as authors, we have every right to decide how we want to publish. As readers, we have every right to decide how we want to select and purchase books.
This is in response to “Why Indie Authors Still Suck” on So You Think You’re An Author by someone who calls himself “anonnymouse13”.
Now, I won’t address the obscenity, profanity, and random personal attacks liberally sprinkled through this post. Seventh grade was a lot of years ago for me, and that stuff stopped either shocking or amusing me years ago.
Looking at the forty percent or so of the post that actually says something, he has written a rather passionate defense of traditional publishing. Passionate, yes, reasonable, not so much.
Basically, he has one good point to make. Books require editing. That happens to be quite true. It is true for Indie authors and it is true for traditionally published authors. Quite frankly, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t agree with that. So I’ll just admit the obvious and agree with him.
Books require editing.
However, from that fact he…
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