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Aug. 16th, 2013 08:04 am( Gaeilge )
Because what I really wanted to wake up to was anti-Semitism and Holocaust/pogrom/everything else denial in the guise of calling out white privilege. Ugh. Fortunately it was immediately followed up with someone else frothing and ranting and calling out their bullshit, but fucking hell, people. Can we stop? Can we just stop hating and pointing fingers and calling blame and stabbing each other in the back for two fucking seconds?
I hate people and everything they stand for some days.
Right, so. I've looked into self-publishing companies and discovered that, heh, print books are likely to be eyepoppingly expensive, at least as far as any kind of profit margin and assuming the kind of print book sales I think I'm likely to get (small, right now) but ebook publicaton looks generally equal one service to another. I'm leaning towards going with Lulu at this point simply because that way I have the option of having a run of print books if that's what I want. And still starting out with ebooks because there are at least two shorter pieces I can put up for $.99, $1.99, what have you. Print books will be more complicated, but if I can build up a decent catalog of ebooks I can tackle more than one or two print books after that. In short, I'm starting to look at the business options of this and it is happening and what the shit what is this handbasket I am in.
So. Mm. On the calendar today is Gods and Monsters, which is good because although I have an outline right now I only have one scene drafted. So get that started, and then bash the two short things I have into shape so I can, horror, publish them as ebooks. And then we will all be very terrified. Yes? Yes.
This may turn out not to be so bad! Yes? Maybe? No? Goddammit.
Because what I really wanted to wake up to was anti-Semitism and Holocaust/pogrom/everything else denial in the guise of calling out white privilege. Ugh. Fortunately it was immediately followed up with someone else frothing and ranting and calling out their bullshit, but fucking hell, people. Can we stop? Can we just stop hating and pointing fingers and calling blame and stabbing each other in the back for two fucking seconds?
I hate people and everything they stand for some days.
Right, so. I've looked into self-publishing companies and discovered that, heh, print books are likely to be eyepoppingly expensive, at least as far as any kind of profit margin and assuming the kind of print book sales I think I'm likely to get (small, right now) but ebook publicaton looks generally equal one service to another. I'm leaning towards going with Lulu at this point simply because that way I have the option of having a run of print books if that's what I want. And still starting out with ebooks because there are at least two shorter pieces I can put up for $.99, $1.99, what have you. Print books will be more complicated, but if I can build up a decent catalog of ebooks I can tackle more than one or two print books after that. In short, I'm starting to look at the business options of this and it is happening and what the shit what is this handbasket I am in.
So. Mm. On the calendar today is Gods and Monsters, which is good because although I have an outline right now I only have one scene drafted. So get that started, and then bash the two short things I have into shape so I can, horror, publish them as ebooks. And then we will all be very terrified. Yes? Yes.
This may turn out not to be so bad! Yes? Maybe? No? Goddammit.