In his book Thoughts On Death And Life, philosopher William Ernest
Hocking wrote these thought - provoking words:
Not exact matches
Personally, I
think all Amanda
Hocking wanted to do was
write books and she used the only venue available to her — Self Publishing.
Although some authors did make a career out of
writing pulp, I don't
think anyone ever got rich off of exclusively
writing pulp fiction (there were no Amanda
Hockings of pulp).
There's definitely a stigma, and although it's fading, I
think it will continue to take time and hard work from authors like yourself (and Amanda
Hocking, as a great example) to show that self publishing doesn't mean lazy
writing.
Do you
think that series writers like
Hocking have a better chance of self - publishing success than those who
write single titles?
You also said, «But I also
think that in Amanda
Hocking's case, the fact that she
writes YA has a lot to do with it.
I hope I haven't given the impression that I don't
think Amanda
Hocking worked very hard or accomplished some rather amazing feats in her
writing career.
There are people out there, I
think — and that's the reason Amanda
Hocking took a traditional publishing deal, because she didn't want to do all the things around
writing, the business around it.