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Originally Posted by Hitch
Now, I know that most of you aren't actually bookmakers. Except for Dennis, who's taking bets in his spare bedroom. (Oops, did I type that outloud?)
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You did, but I don't. I don't normally
place bets, let alone accept them.
(Doing the latter would likely be stepping on someone's toes, and they would object violently.)
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Ya gotta wonder. I truly don't know if the field simply attracts oddballs, or whackos, or what. Or if it's simply that the advent of the Internet has exposed all of us to people we never--never--would have encountered, in our normal day-to-day lives. But now? Sure. Now, they don't just exist, they thrust themselves into our reality.
{SIGH}
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And the Internet enables it.
I had conversation with a friend a few years ago. She was a former executive editor at a trade publisher who is now a full time writer, and we were discussing the state of publishing and the misconceptions surrounding it (like how cheaply a book can be priced.)
She said "The problem is, we're
smart, and we surround ourselves with other people who are smart, so we're insulated. We don't realize that an awful lot of people out there
aren't smart until we have to deal with them."
She's spot on. I've lost track of the number of things that are glaringly obvious to me that elude some folks I deal with. In some cases, it's a matter of not
wanting to get it, because the concept is one that flies against their preconceptions and they don't want to believe it. In others, they simply
can't get it. They just aren't bright enough to grasp the notion.
Both types seem to emerge from the woodwork where self-publishing is concerned.
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Dennis