It maybe because I Am Not A Writer (of fiction, anyhow), but I don't get that approach.
As a musician, I have a vehement dislike of big music publishers. If EMI or Sony came knocking, I would *honestly* not be interested. I've had a teensytiny taste of having to produce my art to other people's requirements and I didn't like it one little bit.
What I don't get it why it's OK - in fact normal - for independent musicians to produce their own music, publish it, market it and gig it. All the money that they earn goes to them, and they have control over the production of their art.
But people in the publishing world seem to frown upon it for some reason, and I don't understand why writing should be so different... Lulu.com and the suchlike are simply tools to get the material into other people's hands, just as Soundsgood.com or any other CD pressing company.
Take control. Publish your art yourself, and rejoice in the printed word - regardless of whether you paid someone else to be judgemental at you or not.
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Date: 2009-04-21 01:12 pm (UTC)As a musician, I have a vehement dislike of big music publishers. If EMI or Sony came knocking, I would *honestly* not be interested. I've had a teensytiny taste of having to produce my art to other people's requirements and I didn't like it one little bit.
What I don't get it why it's OK - in fact normal - for independent musicians to produce their own music, publish it, market it and gig it. All the money that they earn goes to them, and they have control over the production of their art.
But people in the publishing world seem to frown upon it for some reason, and I don't understand why writing should be so different... Lulu.com and the suchlike are simply tools to get the material into other people's hands, just as Soundsgood.com or any other CD pressing company.
Take control. Publish your art yourself, and rejoice in the printed word - regardless of whether you paid someone else to be judgemental at you or not.
Hurrah for "Three Windows"!