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July 1 question – Is there anything you’d like to see changed, added, and/or rearranged about the book publishing industry?

Well yeah, I mean, so far, I’ve only self-published, and that wasn’t that hard. As in, formatting and posting the books wasn’t that hard. But then marketing, etc. was impossible. I sold a few, and that’s all fine. I just don’t know that it’s going to go anywhere because I don’t have the time or energy to do the rest of it. I just want to write. I don’t want to design a cover, market, etc. and I don’t have enough money to pay someone else to do it for me. I could try to get published in a more old fashioned route, but the problem with that is with the genre I write, many publishers won’t touch it. Sometimes (like in Exploration, a choose your own adventure erotic novel) the kink is pretty light, but in other books it’s much more controversial. I even took one of my books off the market for that reason.

So I am obviously not against self published novels, but it’s very hard to know which ones are going to be half decent and which ones are going to be unreadable. I wish there were some level between purely self published and traditionally published for the average person to tap into both as an author and as a reader.

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