Joe hasn't changed my writing but he certainly has changed the way I think about cover art. His experiences so boldly presented to the rest of us, have changed the way I feel about publishing. Like you, Camille, I've been uncomfortable with the expectations or requirements of traditional publishing, which I've been in my entire adult life. Tradpub is dying from the inside out, the rot has been there for many years. I always place the mark at the time when multinational conglomerates took over--it became not just business but Big Business. I'm relieved to be out from under it.
I still have a mystery series being marketed by my agent. Carolyn Reidy told a group at the seminar just a couple weeks ago they're not buying anything by anyone they haven't already published. I expect I will be taking the series digital by the end of the year.
And ASparrow, no offense taken. How could it be?
Robin
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