I thumbed through my email recently and saw one of my rather rabid fans and sent me a communication. The gest of the note was asking why I didn’t publish my work in a manner where I could be paid for my talent. He told me what a wonderful writer I am (which he had several times before) how with just a little bit of effort and perhaps a good editor my stories would be commercially viable. He gushed over my description of an especially gruesome scene in one of my stories. He loved some tepid violent rape scene and how I described someone’s death. I haven’t posted this story here and may not. I didn’t like the story myself and haven’t wrapped around how to fix it. As I said he is a passionate fan who reads everything I write many times. He constantly gush about my talent. Frankly, I don’t see what he sees and I certainly do not agree with him that I could be an author published for money.

Even so getting paid to write doesn’t that just sound fantastic? My con sensor went off right away and I told him politely “I’m not interested in that.” I thought he was just spreading the bullshit a mite too thick. I have seen them the self-publish book sites for on-demand sales on all the favorite books stores and online sites. You only pay them XXXX.XX amount of bucks and they do all this wonderful crap for you.