Indie Book Train ROW80

Dear Pete Morin:


I do not see self-publishing as a stigma. It takes courage and stamina to finish a novel. It takes eggs to self publish (english translation fades). There is a train coming. There are thousands of new small publishers this past month that will print on demand. I see new mediums out cropping from the ability to write and publish in days.

Exciting interactive ideas are before us. Books where readers talk to the author online and change and develop stories, books with links to music and what is next? smellivision? It sounds silly but we have not fully used the interactive idea of the internet. I just started tweeting. I frowned on the concept. Shame on me for not jumping into something creative and full of knowledge. Social media is not understood by business, yet. It is more like indie music and film was fifteen years back. America and the world is hungry for great content. There is room for many. Be yourself and a million people will find a kindred spirit. At fifty two cents a book no one is getting rich. BUT the future is to be involved in positive ways. This is the Third Great Depression, great art came of the last two.

There are the spammers, there are the hackers, there are the trolls and doomsayers. I have decided to be myself - and embrace anyone who is positive. I invite you to get in my cattle car this might look like a choo-choo but it is going to be high speed rail.

What is your book about? What is your writing schedule? Who is your cheerleader?

My personal theory:
I will not pay to submit. I will not query a thousand. I only have X hours a day to devote my energy. I will not beg. The right agent with passion will find me. I will know it right away. I am making my writing great. I give something different about my time in this place. I am kind to everyone. I will help other authors, photographers and anyone who asks.

I am directing this next part of my own life. I have to lay the tracks. By tracks I mean, take the photograph for my cover art, learn to convert formats, weed through how to edit a video.
PS Buy my book, this is a stick up.

ROW80 Friends:
Finished rewrite chapter one and two
3-4 by Sunday
Need to plug someone else tomorrow, made that goal.
Finished Preponderance of Crows, and I am pleased.
Exercised, did not eat Osso Bucco Pete (I don't eat red
meat but that sounds good right now.)