Find (on this page): Ctrl+F 12/3/2007 7:49 PM Search December 1, 2007 Do you want to know the real tragedy? No, of course you don't, you want to wallow in ignorance and petty self-aggrandizement, but I'll tell you anyway. Money, that's what. Nobody can know anything they don't pay for and what you pay for rots your brain. It's a vicious circle. There is no God but Money and Oprah Winfrey is His Messenger. Here's how it works. There are these rich guys, see. They're from all over the world and they entertain themselves and derive pride and joy from accumulating wealth by starving, subjugating, enslaving and torturing billions of poor people. How fun. Rich guys use the all-pervasive, unassailable media and entertainment industries as their own private propaganda apparatus to keep you so stupid you buy the boatloads of the useless crap they need to sell in order to accumulate wealth. It's not just things, either. You morons buy the absurd notions they sell you, too...things like "democracy" and
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Do you want to know the realtragedy? No, of course you don't, youwant to wallow in ignorance andpetty self-aggrandizement, but I'll tellyou anyway. Money, that's what.Nobody can know anything theydon't pay for and what you pay forrots your brain. It's a vicious circle.There is no God but Money andOprah Winfrey is His Messenger.
Here's how it works. There are theserich guys, see. They're from all overthe world and they entertainthemselves and derive pride and joyfrom accumulating wealth bystarving, subjugating, enslaving andtorturing billions of poor people. Howfun. Rich guys use the all-pervasive,unassailable media and entertainmentindustries as their own privatepropaganda apparatus to keep you sostupid you buy the boatloads of theuseless crap they need to sell in orderto accumulate wealth. It's not justthings, either. You morons buy theabsurd notions they sell you,too...things like "democracy" and"free speech" and a "free press." Ha!Stalin in his wildest dreams nevercame up with a gulag like the gulagyou're living in.
Nothing you can read or hear or seeor learn in school isn't a lie. The onlyfunction you have your whole life isto buy more and more worthlessjunk. You've got the minds of sheep;you're conditioned from birth to
believe what your shepherds get paidto tell you and what they get paid totell you is vile, money grubbingbalderdash. Root, root, root for thehome team. Vote. Eat atMcDonald's. Hate who and whatyour owners want you to hate; lovewho and what your owners want youto love. Keep your nose to thegrindstone. Mind your manners.Covet everything anyone else has. Dounto others before they do unto you.Spend more money than you make.Live for tomorrow. Ack. It's stupidto tell you how stupid you are.
If you want to see an example ofsomething that's not a lie, somethingthat won't rot your brain and won'tkeep you stupid, something you can't
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buy for all the money in the world,go read the new version of GinnyGood I just stuck up. It's free. Likeme. You won't do that, of course.You'd rather wallow in the ignoranceand petty self-aggrandizement yourowners keep you wallowing in fortheir own vile, money grubbingreasons. Anything free can't be of anyvalue, can it? No. If it were of value itwould be for sale. Lord, what foolsthese mortals be! G.
The esteemed buyer,seller, promoter and adulttrade publisher ofGINNY GOOD byself-effacing,mild-mannered,obsequious me. G.
November 16, 2006Interview with PaulCohen re:"Self-Publishing"
GERARD JONES: Whata "self-published" booklacks is the vettingprocess, the assumptionthat if a reputable agentsold the thing to areputable publisher, thebook's gotta be worthhyping and the media(book reviewers, talkshows, awards guys,booksellers, etc.), hype theBejesus out of it. If it's"self-published" theassumption is that nogood agent could sell it orwanted to sell it and nogood publisher wanted tobuy it...so why should themedia waste its time andno reader, therefore, willwaste his or her timereading the thing. Peoplebuy hype, period. Hypecosts money. Moneymakes money. Withenough hype The ClevelandYellow Pages will sell abillion copies. Without anyhype, the greatest literatureof all time won't make adime. You know all this,but your potential clients
need to know it and needto be willing to make aninvestment in themselvesand in their work for theirown exquisite reasons,whatever they may be, andnot with the hope ofrealizing a monetary returnon that investment.
PAUL COHEN: Thevetting process isimportant. Epigraph is nota self-publishing companyin that sense. We will not
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accept a client's book forpublication if it hasn't achance of competing.What would be the point?The idea behind Epigraphis to level the playing fieldfor authors whose bookscould compete againsttraditionally publishedauthors if they were givenequivalent access andpublishing services.
The bias againstself-publishing is at anend. Editors, publishers,booksellers, reps, etc allrealize that what makes abook a success is thecontent and the marketing,not the ownership ofrights. Readers do not careor even know whopublished their favoritebook. The bias against badbooks, on the other hand,remains. Editors andbooksellers understand thedifference and theyunderstand too that thepublishing industry as awhole is undergoingprofound changes. When
Steven King self publishedone of his new novelsonline a couple of yearsago, it sent a message anda question through theindustry about thetheretofore inviolablestructure of traditionalpublishing contracts. Itproved that the publishingcontract, and all that itimplied, had fallen behindthe march of technology.As more goodself-publishing companiesdevelop, self publishedworks will be seen not asvanity projects but asauthor empowered. Ifself-publishers are smart,they will become knownas uber-marketers of theirwork. If they do thatsuccessfully, booksellerswill buy their works withconfidence.
GERARD JONES: Whatyour "trade publishing"option has going for it is
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that people will end upwith a "real" book, nicelyproduced, with a credibledistribution network.That's worth $10k topeople with a spare $10kto throw around, butother than corporateclients, there are very fewindividual "authors" whocan possibly have anyhope in hell of recoupingtheir investment.
PAUL COHEN: Authorshave to know up frontthat publishing is not (formost people) directly
profitable. Most booksthat are published do notmake money, even forpublishers. There has tobe some other reason topublish. It's that otherreason that makespublishing worthwhile.Whatever that otherreason is, it should beworth the initialinvestment to publish. Ifauthors approachself-publishing in this way,and as an investment intheir own work or career,they can have some peaceof mind while they aredoing it and make betterpublishing decisionsbecause of it. Thoseauthors are more likely torecoup their investmentand even make a profitover time.
Also self-publishingdoesn't have to cost$10,000; that's just anexample on the website. Ifyou really want to do it onthe cheap, say, to getstarted, you can selfpublish for free onLulu.com. Self-publishingis a way to be proactive inthe development of yourintellectual property.Sometimes it's the onlyway. Rather than be avictim of the publishingindustry you can takematters into your ownhands.
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Some authors do makemoney self-publishing.Most recently, DonaldTrump and Robert
Kiyosaki self publishedtheir Why We Want You tobe Rich because it allowedthem to donate a half amillion dollars to their petproject, teaching businessand money-making skillsto kids in public schools.Self-publishing is nodifferent than traditionalpublishing in that sense. Ifyou sell a lot of copies,you'll make money.
GJ: You seem to have"hype" options, as well.That gets even moreexpensive and doesn'tensure a better return.
PC: The hype options areabout making sure bookssell through. Epigraph,unlike most self-publishingcompanies, providesnational distribution tobookstores. That's notsomething the author hasto do. The author'spublicity dollars will gofurther having that kind ofsupport. The author is alsonot alone; they areworking with a team. Asyou said, there is noguarantee that promotionwill improve your returnon investment but frommy experience promotionnearly always produces abetter end result than nopromotion.
Authors have to learn tothink more long termabout the development oftheir intellectual property.The idea that a book hasonly has three months inwhich it should bemarketed is quitedamaging to the longer
term prospects for thatbook. What most booksneed to succeed isprolonged and targetedmarketing. The savvy selfpublishing author will stillbe promoting when his
Thanks for the interview.It's like the Dalai Lamasays, "There'll be nomoney but on yourdeathbed, you'll receivetotal consciousness." So,you'll have that going foryou.
GJ: That Dalai Lama guy,he's one smart cookie.Thanks. G.
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Dear GerardJones:Thanks forthe update.You'veclearly put aprodigiousamount ofeffort into
EveryoneWho's... andI wouldimagine it'squite a usefultool forsomepeople.Thanks, andbest of luck.--sph
DearStephen: Ijust add stuffas I comeacross it andrely on kinde-mails likeyours tocorrect whatI get wrong.If I'd knownit was gonnabe soprodigious Inever wouldhave done it.Oh, nicewebsite, bythe way.Thanks. G.
(novels andshortfiction). Thebest place toget an ideaof what wedo is ourwebsite,which alsohas oursubmissionguidelines. Ican't tellenough fromwhat you'vesaid aboutyour books(except thatif one reallyis a memoirwe're notinterested inthat) toknow if
Hi Gerard, Just letting you know MarieMacaisa is a project editor with MediaFusionbut not an acquiring editor on that line.MediaFusion acquisitions are reviewed byeverybody so it's fine to submit to:Acquisitions, MediaFusion. Thanks for thenote. And keep up the good work,Dominique
Hey, Dominique, got it. I'll fix things.Thanks. You too. G.
We publish nonfiction only as for example the upcomingPower Beyond Reason which proves that President Johnsonwhile in office was a manic-depressive paranoiacand�his disease kept us in the war in Vietnam and costthousands of American lives... lyle stuart�
Dear Lyle: Sounds like a good, eminently believable,book, but let's not forget the three million Vietnameselives it cost as well. Thanks again. G.
Dear Gerard Jones:How come I'm not inyour directory? I'mCarole Stuart,publisher of BarricadeBooks and Lyle Stuartis President. If youwant moreinformation, let meknow and I'll send it.You do want to becompletely up to date,right? We've beenpublishing for nearly13 years! Carole Stuart
Dear Carole: I hadyou in there at first,but I couldn't find ane-mail address foryou, so I took youout. Anything youwant to say I'd bemore than happy toput in, sure, as little oras much. Thanksagain. G.
I'll look it over...I liketheinformationvery�
helpful. Carole
Thanks. Take yourtime. Hey, yourmission is thefurtherance of freespeech. So is mine.Ha! G.
Yes and it's caused usa lot of expensivegrief. (See SteveWynn v. BarricadeBooks and v. LyleStuart.) Anyway....
Wow. Oh, thankheaven for actualmalice, but I'm sure itcost you a prettypenny nonetheless.Tricky business, thistruth telling. The bestthing I've got goingfor me is that I'mjudgmentproofwhen you got�nothing you gotnothing to lose. Youshould see what I'm
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doing with OprahWinfrey. She's gonnahave a cow. I'mabsolutely within myrights to use her inthe way I dothanks�to Larry Flynt andJerry Falwellbut still�no publisher willtouch it with a tenfoot pole. That's themain problem withmy nonfiction booktoo. Here's the firstcouple lines:
"I'm using everyone'sreal name. They can
all sue me. I hopethey do. I could usethe excitement."
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Gerard,Thanks andgood luckwith yourbook.Monkfishshould be agoodhomethey�are with us
onConsortium.thanks,RobertLasnere
Cool.Consortiumain't exactlyIngram orBaker &Taylor but assoon as allthe bestbooks startgettingdistributedby themthey'll beIngram andBaker &Taylor.Thanks. G.
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(666) = Asked not to be contacted (by me, notby you), very likely because he or she is ahappy little slave boy or a happy little slave girland doesn't want it any other way, uh-huh,uh-huh.Oh, and you can start giving me a lousy fivebucks or ten bucks or fifty bucks or a hundredbucks for all this free stuff any time now. Plusyou get extra free stuff when you do. Here'show:
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I'm not any kind of nonprofit cause, however.If you're some sleazebag foundation lookingfor a way to keep your slave-based societyintact and get yourself a tax writeoff, too, itain't me you're looking for. Babe. Thanks. G.
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