Writing is hard work. Heard that a time or two. Nothing I've learned in the last five years produced even an angstrom-unit-sized bit of data in contradiction. It is hard work, right up until you get to the friggle-frackin' marketing. Then as far as I'm concerned, there's a new definition for "hard work." Plus, it is such a distasteful activity . (Aside to professional marketing types. I am not insulting you, honest. I am just saying I am not as good at marketing as you extraordinarily talented people are, and if you buy my book, I love you, no kidding)
When I was finishing up The Ensign Locker, My One and Only Squeeze walked into the Man Cave and asked what I was going to do to get the thing published. I told her I'd been listening to people talk about how hard it was to get a publisher, how hard it was to sell if you self-published, and that I'd decided to not even try either. I was just going to write stories and leave them. "If the actuarial tables play out for you and me," she says smiling sweetly, "I'll live a year longer than you. I'll bury you with your stories beside you in the casket." Which of course put things into a different perspective. Writing is hard work. It's labor pain, but of course me being a goober guy, what do I know, which of course is not enough argument to stop me writing about it. Anyway, after giving birth to a book, I want it gone. I want it to move out of the house, you know? So, even though marketing makes me feel like a self-pimping person of easy virtue, I'm doing it. Buy the book and I will love you, no kidding. Thank God the politicians have the seventh level
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Linda Sampson
2/13/2013 11:07:07 am
Good going Admiral. Since I have the Nook and the Nook app on the laptop and the tablet, I'll have to get the hard copy. But then I can share it with the Marines.
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John Zerr is the author of four novels, The Ensign Locker, Sundown Town Duty Station, Noble Deeds, and The Happy Life of Preston Katt.
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