tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post4197427572799503549..comments2023-03-28T04:36:55.666-07:00Comments on Green Wizard Publishing: The Indielit Scrapbook 2012Mark Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628714785452520054noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-54094154142254202932014-09-22T15:28:42.371-07:002014-09-22T15:28:42.371-07:00I loved that scrapbook. I still promote it and sho...I loved that scrapbook. I still promote it and show it to people. Heck, I'm on there 2 or 3 times. If this has lost its luster why not consider some other collabortive effort? Whatever you do, I'm in. Toi Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07493934864387695248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-40816392619770007132014-09-08T09:45:15.870-07:002014-09-08T09:45:15.870-07:00Oh yes, I know. Even with people who are publishe...Oh yes, I know. Even with people who are published by a small indie press, they often still have to conform to what the publisher wants. AND take direction from editors who are not any more qualified to write good fiction than they are. In fact, often less so. I think the agents don't follow back because there are so many total wankers around who think that if they follow them back it means they want to read their books. <br /><br />I don't like 'movements'. I am too busy being stridently individual. ;) Terry Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077413235902203848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-60602873584962557732014-09-08T03:54:45.753-07:002014-09-08T03:54:45.753-07:00Terry, I am a convert to your POV nowadays hahahah...Terry, I am a convert to your POV nowadays hahahaha. This was written in 2012. <br />As for the movement thing, I am a movement sort of bloke. I saw in Indie the same kind of thing that stopped people listening to The Eagles and got them in their garages thrashing out three minute pop songs :) It's not happened like that, granted. I find it disappointing. If you read the editorial (slightly naive), I slag off publishers and I still feel the same way about those. Just a month ago, I followed seven agents, quite by chance, on the advice of Twitterbots, and without an ulterior motive, and none of them followed me back. Arseholes. I still know shocking stories about the way publishers treat newbies and the games they play with the "slush" pile, so when I wrote this scrapbook, I saw an alternative. <br />You are right in what you say - most authors do want to be published, but I didn't know that then! <br />It's funny. I've made friends with a few pubbed authors lately and the hoops they have to go through has put me further off. One even has an editor telling him/her what he/she MUST write! <br />Fuck that off for a start, Terry :D :D Hope well, MarkyMark Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15628714785452520054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-49007790926730802532014-09-08T01:29:33.368-07:002014-09-08T01:29:33.368-07:00Mark, Mark, it's always the same - rosie amber...Mark, Mark, it's always the same - rosie amber, book blogger is currently doing a series called Romancing September - 1 novel, 1 author per day throughout the month. About 20 of the 30 have publicised the tour, tweet about the others. The other 10 don't. Rude self important twats are everywhere. <br /><br />Another answer is that most people don't see the 'indie' thing as a movement like you do, they just wish they were trad pubbed. The trouble with 'indie' as well is that yes, it gives the opportunity for the excellent and non-mainstream to be read, but also that it opens the floodgates for every wannabe, talentless and self important ... person to publish on Amazon and call themselves 'an author'. These people see such things as your scrapbook as their right. Alas, there are more of these around than talented people writing good stuff and being supportive. That, I'm afraid, is life. xxTerry Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077413235902203848noreply@blogger.com