Moving on
No doubt a good number of you have experienced going into a room and wondering why. Something that occurs more frequently as we age. Added to that, the other night entering the kitchen I paused some minutes contemplating how to mentally move my Mac's mouse to turn on the light. I wasn't in touch with reality at the moment of course, as the light could only be turned on the conventional way — by flipping the light switch.
Yet another indication that I don't have another book in me. I've worked on my book Togwotee Passage for around a decade now, through countless rewrites, homing in on the best wording, and technical difficulties in creating/updating an ebook (.epub) and preparing print-ready .pdf files. Given a spurt of energy I may add some more illustrations in time, but with this latest revision, live in retail outlets as of 02/12/21, I'm reasonably satisfied with the wording. My goal with this book has not been fame and fortune, but rather through an interesting enough story to contribute my little bit to the growing awareness of how our evolutionary baggage is leading us down a self-destructive path. With the feedback so far, it looks like I've presented an interesting enough story for a majority of readers. One can't please all readers of course.
We have all faced turning points in our lives. The last one I faced was an ending of my woodworking decorative arts when my dexterity with the necessary hand tools diminished. A sampler of works I have done can be seen at: https://lgcullens.com/l-g-cullens-sam...
Otherwise, I have much more time for reading now. I'm still interested in learning all I can about the natural world, and I'm finding new works to broaden my perspective. Interspersed among the 'heavy' reading, I'm also entertaining myself with lighter eco-lit.
To find a book I might be interested in reading, I search through both traditionally and indie published books. Among the indie published books there is a raft of poorly written books, of course, given the dearth of controls. But I've found enough books where the author expended considerable effort, and expense in engaging quality editing. I pass by as many traditionally published books because of their frivolous content. Traditional publishers are by and large businesses with a priority on increasing profits. To achieve such they pander to reader's baser instincts, and I'm not interested in meaningless mayhem and head between the legs subjective entertainment. I'm also irked by all the false hype, with so many sticking their finger in the pie at the author's expense. Regardless of how a book is published though, the author gets the short end of the stick. Think of the billions that businesses like Amazon and IngramSpark make off of aspiring authors, not to mention all the smaller entities riding the backs of aspiring authors. An example being the printed version of my book. Because of the illustrations it is printed in premium color, with a printing cost per copy of $19.33. Yet with a retail price of $34.99 my take home royalty is only $1.66. Can you guess where the other $14.00 per copy goes?
I found a similar situation with my past artwork. My goal with my book being more a broadening of perspective, the print copy price is more of an advantage in deterring our diminishment of forests. There are environmental issues with ebooks also, but not of the same magnitude. Personally, I buy only ebooks anymore.
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ~ Chris Maser
My best wishes for your futures,
L. G. Cullens
Yet another indication that I don't have another book in me. I've worked on my book Togwotee Passage for around a decade now, through countless rewrites, homing in on the best wording, and technical difficulties in creating/updating an ebook (.epub) and preparing print-ready .pdf files. Given a spurt of energy I may add some more illustrations in time, but with this latest revision, live in retail outlets as of 02/12/21, I'm reasonably satisfied with the wording. My goal with this book has not been fame and fortune, but rather through an interesting enough story to contribute my little bit to the growing awareness of how our evolutionary baggage is leading us down a self-destructive path. With the feedback so far, it looks like I've presented an interesting enough story for a majority of readers. One can't please all readers of course.
We have all faced turning points in our lives. The last one I faced was an ending of my woodworking decorative arts when my dexterity with the necessary hand tools diminished. A sampler of works I have done can be seen at: https://lgcullens.com/l-g-cullens-sam...
Otherwise, I have much more time for reading now. I'm still interested in learning all I can about the natural world, and I'm finding new works to broaden my perspective. Interspersed among the 'heavy' reading, I'm also entertaining myself with lighter eco-lit.
To find a book I might be interested in reading, I search through both traditionally and indie published books. Among the indie published books there is a raft of poorly written books, of course, given the dearth of controls. But I've found enough books where the author expended considerable effort, and expense in engaging quality editing. I pass by as many traditionally published books because of their frivolous content. Traditional publishers are by and large businesses with a priority on increasing profits. To achieve such they pander to reader's baser instincts, and I'm not interested in meaningless mayhem and head between the legs subjective entertainment. I'm also irked by all the false hype, with so many sticking their finger in the pie at the author's expense. Regardless of how a book is published though, the author gets the short end of the stick. Think of the billions that businesses like Amazon and IngramSpark make off of aspiring authors, not to mention all the smaller entities riding the backs of aspiring authors. An example being the printed version of my book. Because of the illustrations it is printed in premium color, with a printing cost per copy of $19.33. Yet with a retail price of $34.99 my take home royalty is only $1.66. Can you guess where the other $14.00 per copy goes?
I found a similar situation with my past artwork. My goal with my book being more a broadening of perspective, the print copy price is more of an advantage in deterring our diminishment of forests. There are environmental issues with ebooks also, but not of the same magnitude. Personally, I buy only ebooks anymore.
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ~ Chris Maser
My best wishes for your futures,
L. G. Cullens
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