My new goal: Get published before ebooks take over the world.
There’s something genuine about holding an actual book in your hands, you know? When I get published, whether it be next year or when I’m 75, I want to be able to hold my book in my hands, not just open a file on a Kindle. I want to see the cover, feel the pages, turn the pages, and stain the pages with the burrito I was eating at lunch while looking them over.
I don’t care about money. Really, I don’t. I’d write and publish for free for the rest of my life. I just want to be able to hold my book, in book-form, in my hands, and know that some random person in some random place is also holding my book. And hopefully not giving it a bad review.
Sometimes technology makes me sad.
Excerpt of the day:
Pasha’s commander in the Eliarmy, Locke, appeared beside the archer. “We’ve counted twenty dead, thirteen missing,” he said in a stern, hollow voice. His face pulled together, disturbed.
Damnit, she thought. Thirty-three. We barely have a military anymore.
CSH, chapter 18
Thanks to the technology of Print-On-Demand, your dream will come true! Oh, wait, I guess I missed the point.
ReplyDeleteBut there will always be books until such time as 'technology' equals book tech for reliability and battery life.