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Originally Posted by moonshot
Then it would be a good idea to somehow separate the 'author' who has spent some extra time, effort and money to get their book professionally edited etc. as typatterson67 did from the 'author' who has typed a few hundred pages and clicked it up to Amazon and stuck a price tag on it.
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IMO whoever writes for public consumption, irrespective of quality of product, commercial model, and distribution model, is an author.
someone who writes purely as a hobby and whose writing never sees the light of the day, is also perfectly entitled to call himself or herself an author.
In the creative arts field, I don't see any external party having the right to determine what label you apply to yourself.
And with that I am bowing out of this debate. I think all that had to be said has been said
