R. J. Keller is the author of Waiting For Spring. An avid independent movie enthusiast, she was Managing Editor of The Movie Fanatic website and created episodes of the writer-centric YouTube series, Inside The Writers' Studio, with author Kristen Tsetsi. She co-hosted Book Chatter with Stacey Cochran from 2011-2014. She lives in Central Maine with her family, where she enjoys gardening, collecting geeky memorabilia, and watching other people cook.
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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 11:27 pm and posted in self-publishing, writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
I love this video! And I like what he says about art vs. business. While selling something into the marketplace obviously is about business, the bottom line is… I’m going to write what I want to write. And I’m going to put it out there.
It may have been true at one point that if something wasn’t commercial enough that it was pointless to do it. But the cost barriers are way down, and that lowers the numbers of copies one has to sell to break even.
Also, in a global market place, it doesn’t really matter what you’ve written, if it’s good and has an audience anywhere, with some ingenuity and persistence, you can reach that audience on the internet.
Frankly I think self publishing is a noble cause. The fact that so much of it is empirically bad is immaterial to me. It’s irrelevant. My book has nothing to do with that.
I can’t say that it is a “masterpiece,” that’s something I’ll always be striving for, but I can say it’s not empirically awful and I do believe it has a market and that I can reach it by thinking outside of the box in how I approach readers.
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October 24th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I love this video! And I like what he says about art vs. business. While selling something into the marketplace obviously is about business, the bottom line is… I’m going to write what I want to write. And I’m going to put it out there.
It may have been true at one point that if something wasn’t commercial enough that it was pointless to do it. But the cost barriers are way down, and that lowers the numbers of copies one has to sell to break even.
Also, in a global market place, it doesn’t really matter what you’ve written, if it’s good and has an audience anywhere, with some ingenuity and persistence, you can reach that audience on the internet.
Frankly I think self publishing is a noble cause. The fact that so much of it is empirically bad is immaterial to me. It’s irrelevant. My book has nothing to do with that.
I can’t say that it is a “masterpiece,” that’s something I’ll always be striving for, but I can say it’s not empirically awful and I do believe it has a market and that I can reach it by thinking outside of the box in how I approach readers.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Thanks for featuring my video, RJ!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Darn it. My sound doesn’t work. I am out of the loop. 😦