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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
Freedom is great. So is paying the bills.
A piece of creative fiction is a product - just as much as anything else somebody makes.
I write because I love doing it, love making literature - but gosh darn it, I also know I'm trying to create a product other people will want to read.
More people will read it if I'm an author with and agent and a publisher behind me.
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Oh, here we go again, the paying the bills argument.
Okay, if you were actually serious about paying the bills with writing why would you write that DRM-laden thing you're trying to flog on here? Even a cursory glance at the market (now or in the last thirty years) will show you that your work is too quirky and does not have any obvious place on the shelves. You're not a celebrity, you have no status in literary circles, and the background story, although interesting, does not transfer to the likes of Tesco and Asda (where a lot of books are sold).
You're defending a system you'll never be granted access to. A system that would reject your work out of hand. They don't want quirky. They don't want individuals. They want series, young adult novels, paranormal bullshit and sentimental romances with a dash of time travel on the side, ghost-written stories with the names of bean-brained ex-glamour models plastered over the front.
Seriously, have a look at that industry you want to be part of and then take a look at what you're producing.