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The rough stuff
Sep. 18th, 2006 06:31 pmYou know what's tough about self-publishing?
It's not writing the damn thing.
It's not copy-editing it obsessively.
It's not laying it all out so it looks pretty, doesn't have an inordinate amount of widows/orphans, and has a page count that's divisible by four so the printer doesn't kick your ass.
It's not even designing a fun-looking front cover.
No, kids, it's coming up with the nifty blurbage/marketing crap for the BACK cover. Sigh. Publishing houses pay people to do this. I, on the other hand, the Publishing House of One, have been staring at the blank space where the catchy synopsis should be on the back cover for far longer than it should take me to write about 200 words, considering that I routinely crank out 1500-2500 in a day.
Thank God I have a couple of weeks to figure this all out....
It's not writing the damn thing.
It's not copy-editing it obsessively.
It's not laying it all out so it looks pretty, doesn't have an inordinate amount of widows/orphans, and has a page count that's divisible by four so the printer doesn't kick your ass.
It's not even designing a fun-looking front cover.
No, kids, it's coming up with the nifty blurbage/marketing crap for the BACK cover. Sigh. Publishing houses pay people to do this. I, on the other hand, the Publishing House of One, have been staring at the blank space where the catchy synopsis should be on the back cover for far longer than it should take me to write about 200 words, considering that I routinely crank out 1500-2500 in a day.
Thank God I have a couple of weeks to figure this all out....
