THE SHORT AND THE LONG OF AUTHORING
OKAY, so you’re reading this because you’re an author (hopefully, or an avid reader at least) wondering about what it all means. The “short of it” is about the myriad frustrations with publishing. Publishing wasn’t doing exactly well when bookstores started disappearing (remember Borders, Crown, Waldenbooks, may the rest in peace?), the last behemoth bookstore chain Barnes and Noble was bought out by UK hedge fund Elliot Advisors, distributors, well, began having trouble distributing to fewer and fewer bookstores, then COVID hit and hit hard at every level of publishing. But it’s not to the publishing companies and bookstores that I’m referring here, it’s to publicity and marketing. What used to be a carefully integrated whole, has, in response to the Trump wave, dis-integrated into near functionless pieces, each costing more than the expected return, becoming more and more in my author opinion more of a gambling game where the gamblers lose, and a boat (defined by some as a “well into which one pours money”).
And the long of it? I mentioned in yesterday’s post, that Savant Books and Publications and it’s imprint Aignos Publishing have taken unprecedented steps to re-assemble, re-integrate and move book publishing into the information communication arena by: (1) supporting the new, more visual screenplay-novel; (2) the novella over the novel (a little literary acknowledgement of some of today’s readers’ penchant for flash-fiction); (3) the inception of it’s own, online, COVID-proof, fast-shipping regional bookstores (Savant Bookstore Atlantic, MidWest, Pacific and Honolulu); (4) supporting it’s own distribution company at a consistent 50% off Suggested Retail Price; and (5) working closely with K. Simmons Productions to extend printed, digital and audiobook venues to include manga, animation and cinematic treatments to all Savant/Aignos authors at no additional charge. Go figure.
In my opin, we’ve watched the dinosaurs thrash it out long enough. It’s time for the little mammals to re-emerge and start doing some of the literary work that so desperately needs doing. And it’s already begun with Savant/Aignos/K. Simmons Productions’ “The STATIC Movie” (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie) based on a screenplay by multi-award-winning Savant author, Richard Rose (The Lazarus Conspiracies, The Gumshoe, Comic Crusaders, Retribution) premiering worldwide on 25 September 2021, soon to be release by Aignos publishing as a screenplay novel (https://www.savantbooksandpublication...).
And I don’t want to forget my own multi-award-winning, Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor that has been purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatments. Go figure. Again. Or better yet, don’t worry about figuring at all. Grab a copy of TEOM and see for yourself what the short and long of today’s and future authoring is about.
The Edge of Madness
And the long of it? I mentioned in yesterday’s post, that Savant Books and Publications and it’s imprint Aignos Publishing have taken unprecedented steps to re-assemble, re-integrate and move book publishing into the information communication arena by: (1) supporting the new, more visual screenplay-novel; (2) the novella over the novel (a little literary acknowledgement of some of today’s readers’ penchant for flash-fiction); (3) the inception of it’s own, online, COVID-proof, fast-shipping regional bookstores (Savant Bookstore Atlantic, MidWest, Pacific and Honolulu); (4) supporting it’s own distribution company at a consistent 50% off Suggested Retail Price; and (5) working closely with K. Simmons Productions to extend printed, digital and audiobook venues to include manga, animation and cinematic treatments to all Savant/Aignos authors at no additional charge. Go figure.
In my opin, we’ve watched the dinosaurs thrash it out long enough. It’s time for the little mammals to re-emerge and start doing some of the literary work that so desperately needs doing. And it’s already begun with Savant/Aignos/K. Simmons Productions’ “The STATIC Movie” (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie) based on a screenplay by multi-award-winning Savant author, Richard Rose (The Lazarus Conspiracies, The Gumshoe, Comic Crusaders, Retribution) premiering worldwide on 25 September 2021, soon to be release by Aignos publishing as a screenplay novel (https://www.savantbooksandpublication...).
And I don’t want to forget my own multi-award-winning, Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor that has been purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatments. Go figure. Again. Or better yet, don’t worry about figuring at all. Grab a copy of TEOM and see for yourself what the short and long of today’s and future authoring is about.
The Edge of Madness
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