When a band self releases their own
music, that’s cool and its belief in yourself and totally cool to go
independent.
When
a filmmaker finances their flick themselves and sells direct to the audience,
that takes guts and courage and dedication to their vision.
An
artist doesn’t usually wait for a committee to tell them its OK to go and
create a painting, the artist just paints.
So
why is it when someone self publishes a book its looked down upon?
Why
is self-publishing your writing still considered to be somehow cheap?
I
read a lot. Some pro-published some not. Some pro-published stuff is great,
some is crap. Some self-published stuff is great some is crap. So why do some
people disparage everything that is self published?
What
is a blog if not self-publishing yet I don’t hear people decrying blogs in
general, instead I hear “It gives everyone a voice”. Well doesn’t self-publishing
do the same thing?
For
all of you who dismiss self-publishing, I’ll leave you with one last thought,
without self-publishing the names William Blake and Edgar Allen Poe may have
been unknown. If you don’t believe me research their lives. Both of them
extensively self-published their own works.
Yours in committed
self-publication,
Count Robot
