To Frustrated Writers

To all frustrated writers:

Two literary critics were talking and the first one said, “F. Scott Fitzgerald died a broken man, because THE GREAT GATSBY was a commercial and critical flop.  And the second said, “Yeah, but he knew he wrote a good book.”

Don’t let those agents and acquisition editors and big house publishers get to you.  They’re mostly nice, overworked people, but they’re 20^thCentury dinosaurs, breathing in the volcanic ash of technology and slowly going extinct. Fugetaboutit.

Technology has set us free.  Just go to Amazon KDP and publish your book.  It’s free, easy, you have complete creative control, the royalty rates are great, and you get immediate worldwide distribution.

You won’t get reviewed in The New York Times and you probably won’t get rich and famous.  But you might.  I have a friend who publishes independently (Don’t call it “self-publishing,” it’s Independent Publishing) and he has sold over 30,000 books.  Another friend often gets on The New York Times bestseller list. Another has had a major movie made from her book.

Will this happen to you?  Probably not.  I know it hasn’t happened to me.  But that’s not important.  There’s only one thing that matters:

You wrote a good book.
Enjoy yourself.