What’s independence?

Me and my independent sentiments. Last week I read an article with an independent creed I almost never see — that expresses my unexpressed convictions. Here’s a link: Matthew Gasda, ‘How Indie Authors are Like Naked Emperors’.

(It’s on a site that one-starred my book; you’ll spot that if you explore. What can I say? This reviewer had no patience to put the time in. I gather my book didn’t suit her, don’t you?)

Anyhow. I’ll have to follow what Matthew Gasda writes; his last piece for them talked of artistic integrity — I kid you not — and how people go indie for the sake of it. What old fashioned values. Link: ‘Indie Books and Their Critics’.

Now, I went indie like a shot and mine won’t be a take-off indie, and I was quick to make the adjustment from old fantasies of the book funding me, to the real state of affairs — it’s me funding the book. That’s fine. What else is Bryn for but to slave on behalf of the book? It’s only fair and right.

Independence. For me, Smashwords has been a spokes-outfit for independence, while Amazon does not act in the spirit of indie. I sell at Amazon and shouldn’t insult them, but they have just swallowed Goodreads, which was my social life. One can’t always be polite.

Of course it’s way way better for the book if I don’t have a social life, so ta for that Amazon.

What the hell is the purpose of this post? I think, to give you that 1st link. An indie creed. The sort of indie creed I need to see more of. World?