This Is What I'm Up Against As A Self-Published Author

I have to be honest and admit I've never respected genres of fiction such as "Romance" and what is euphemistically called "Erotica." Lousy writers titillating readers for very cheap thrills and profit. I hardly consider these people "writers" in any meaningful sense of the word, except they put words on paper.

I'm reminded of what Truman Capote said about Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation: "It isn't writing, it's typing." I've always thought of these genres as typing, rather than writing. T...