Cold, wet n' windy 3 days in South Dorset building located,
site-specific literary apps 4 & 5 for the South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership with my SATSYMPH collaborators. Wandering around idyllic quintessentially English churchyard of Winterborne Came thinking "I'm getting (well) paid to do this!" Must put up 'digital lit' thread when I figure out where and how, if people interested. Anyway, I was sort of commenting during downtime over the w/end that a well-respected agent had told me basically that '
publishers are only interested in books by celebs nowadays'. Other Litopians poo-poo'd, but then (Serendipity Rules!) the same headline pitched up on Twitter re. children's books, something along the line of 'professional authors angry that publishers only interested in books by celebs' (can't find it now). Ah, turned up:
SLEBS. So I'm really thinking that I need to self-publish 3S10, because:
- its themes of NHS politics, assisted dying, the ageing crisis, the crisis in social care, bed-blocking, even its AI themes are NOW. Even IF I find an agent, AND she finds a publisher AND it gets published, that's 2-5 years down the road. By then we'll all be dead and gorn or living in caves on rotting sheep...
- I've got nothing special to do for the next 20 years, so may as well....
Gathering advice and materials re. KDP and Create-Space and been thinking about transmedia publishing for ages anyway. Any useful comments? Thanks!
Soundpools of literary content overlaid over Bronkham Barrows high on the South Dorset Ridgeway, hear them with your smartphone only on location>>>
