Steven’s Comments (group member since Oct 06, 2008)

Steven’s comments from the Indie BookShelf group.

Ineteresting little tidbit, there is a composer (well, was, he sadly died last year) named Karlheinz Stockhausen, he found it impossible to write his scores in comformation with the demands of the publishers of sheetmusic, so he set up his own publishing company.

I know, plus they would no longer have to pay royalties lol.
In general it is rather ironic that alot of great artists only find recognition after they die, it is a common saying of course, but still ironic; then perhaps it is merely an application of Nietzsche idea of 'the untimely'.
I myself lack teh power to push my work though, all I know how to do really is to write my work, I live in it.

Steven

It is just harder to find recognition though, but then it is hard in any case since publishers no longer take any riscs and the sad reality is that if Paris Hilton was to write a book, it would be a bestseller regardless of the stupidity of the book.

Artistic control, yes that is important. Too much books are over-edited these days, Octavio Paz once wrote a good essay on this, how everything becomes edited to read the same and as such there no longer is any style. Supposedly the orginal of Kerouac's 'on the road' was just one ultralong paragraph, he had to change it into a proper book structure in order to get it published.

Steven