“We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
-President John Fitzgerald Kennedy“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
-Steve Martin
Amazon would have me in a second.
My manuscript is complete, all 94,000 words of it, and impatiently waiting on my hard drive for its time to shine. A quick zap from the right Word plugin, and it’s ready for eBook distribution. Follow that with a little amateur typesetting, slap a cover on it, and boom! I’m ready to hasten the decline of your favorite bookstore.
Fine. I’m downplaying it a bit. Knowing me, it would be more than a little typesetting. I’d obsess over every page, even the one at the front of the book with the Lilliputian legalese on it. The cover would take a while. I’ve got ideas for what I want it to be, but I’d need to hire a designer and have it professionally done. Still, I could certainly have it polished and ready for digital store shelves in less than a month. Two weeks, maybe, depending on how long it takes to get the cover done.
Look.
I’ve been kicking this around from the moment I un-blanked the first page. After my first disappointing ride on the query-go-round, I was totally prepared to skip it this time around. Why should I spend my time begging these industry know-it-alls for their…
