The Curse of the Writer's Internet
Hooray!
My book is now live on Kindle, and is in queue (what a wierd word) to be posted on smashwords.com within minutes. How different things are now. When Charles Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities." the story was printed as a weekly newspaper sequel, and authors were paid by the word. That made for a really long drawn out story. Now I can post my whole book in seconds with a mere click on multiple sites around the world.
Smashwords is converting the book to all formats "as we speak" because I'm posting this on the wireless laptop which is next to my desktop computer. (I know- I'm all ate up with this.)
AAARRG! I've made some stupid spacebar error and have to go back through the whole book to find it before http://www.smashwords.com/ will post it. I guess it could be worse. If one is working with an agent on a traditional publishing project, it could take up to two years to get a book to customers. Well I guess I can go back again and find it (read that as minor hissey fit).
In Dickens' day, writing was a major leap of faith. "What, I have to hand-write the whole novel again because some meathead dropped the manuscript in a puddle?" Some authors died before ever seeing their work in print. Must have been that antique version of "your book is currently number 25,234 in queue."
Oh, man!
http://www.pastorjerrylive.org/
My book is now live on Kindle, and is in queue (what a wierd word) to be posted on smashwords.com within minutes. How different things are now. When Charles Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities." the story was printed as a weekly newspaper sequel, and authors were paid by the word. That made for a really long drawn out story. Now I can post my whole book in seconds with a mere click on multiple sites around the world.
Smashwords is converting the book to all formats "as we speak" because I'm posting this on the wireless laptop which is next to my desktop computer. (I know- I'm all ate up with this.)
AAARRG! I've made some stupid spacebar error and have to go back through the whole book to find it before http://www.smashwords.com/ will post it. I guess it could be worse. If one is working with an agent on a traditional publishing project, it could take up to two years to get a book to customers. Well I guess I can go back again and find it (read that as minor hissey fit).
In Dickens' day, writing was a major leap of faith. "What, I have to hand-write the whole novel again because some meathead dropped the manuscript in a puddle?" Some authors died before ever seeing their work in print. Must have been that antique version of "your book is currently number 25,234 in queue."
Oh, man!
http://www.pastorjerrylive.org/
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