Quote 3: Permission Granted, 45 Reasons To Micro-publish

I believe that the future of publishing will look very different than it does today.

I know that the publishing today is already vastly different than it was in 2005, when I landed my first book deal.

Today, writers are still subjected to the siren calls of gurus who want to teach them how to become bestsellers by following ten easy steps.

Conferences still focus too much on featuring bestselling authors, while audience members dream of their big break some day.

And there is not enough frank discussion about how to cultivate a solid foundation that publishing success can be built upon.

In the future, publishing will be on a spectrum. Writers will have works all over the spectrum of various lengths, forms and genres. What we think of as “books” will be accompanied by formats we can not even imagine yet, many of them frictionless or streaming.

And in all of this, the most important person is the reader. Today’s quotes summarizes what many readers expect in the future.

If you are a writer and you have not started to wrap your mind around future possibilities, now is the time.

Your prospects may even get brighter the more you look to the future and the less you look to the past.