{"id":15573,"date":"2009-07-15T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2009\/07\/15\/no-more-bickering-about-reality\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:43","slug":"no-more-bickering-about-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2009\/07\/15\/no-more-bickering-about-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"No more bickering about reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t understand self-publishing websites that keep posting articles by literary agents and other tied-to-the-industry people who, of course<\/em>, don’t want to think about self-publishing as “real”.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fine, whatever, but some of us are busy trying to do it, so I don’t see what’s helpful when people who claim to also<\/em> be involved in this keep forwarding the bilious insults to our professionalism, intent, and talent — or else keep engaging in endless blather back and forth about whether it’s legitimate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Whatever! I’m more interested in engaging with people who are taking their own work as far as it can go, sharing ideas and insights, inspiring each other — making something! T<\/em>his other stuff is pointless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Indie publishers engaging in the “is self-publishing real?” online spitting contest are like a jilted lover sending a constant stream of e-mails to an ex. It’s not happening — do something else, or you’re a loser!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The industry is like an abusive ex, and our readers are the true love of our life. Which do you want to pay attention to?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I don’t understand self-publishing websites that keep posting articles by literary agents and other tied-to-the-industry people who, of course, don’t want to think about self-publishing as “real”. Fine, whatever, but some of us are busy trying to do it, so I don’t see what’s helpful when people who claim to also be involved in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}