Okay, so I'm getting pretty jaded with the whole "finding an agent" process, one that I have come to view as trying to find a girlfriend. It's all about finding that special someone who likes your writing, not so much on whether it's good. Anyway, back to the point of this entry. After several months of not "making a connection" with an agent, I've started considering publishing my work directly on Kindle. After countless hours of writing, editing, crafting synopses, and sending query letters, I've come to the conclusion that the traditional method of publishing is bullshit. To be perfectly candid, I'm pretty happy to see the big publishing houses on the run from the megalomaniacal Amazon, and they deserve whatever they get. They also have no one else to blame except themselves.
For decades, these douche bag companies have served as the gatekeepers to the industry, cherry-picking whatever they thought would have commercial value. Well guess what, ass holes, your days are numbered. Good writers who are too exasperated to continue trying to convince one of your shithead reps that they have a winning story are now circumnavigating you altogether, and surprise, they're succeeding!
While many writers are not seeing any success whatsoever from Amazon (because their writing probably isn't any better than a third grader's), quite a few are. I'm thinking that I probably will too, and hopefully I will be posting some details about my upcoming book. Maybe with a little luck, this blog will be titled "Happy Writer." Yeah, like that will ever fucking happen. I'm only happy when I can be an obscenity spewing curmudgeon.
