Jane Friedman is the one who helped me get past my fear of micro-publishing in the first place. Today I am in her blog discussing "6 Ways Micro-publishing Strengthens Your Author Career."
We have got to stop talking about publishing as us and them.
Anyone who is only talking about publishing as a higher echelon of elite professionals who gate-keep writers is talking about days that have already gone by.
Publishing is already more diverse than this by far.
What’s the problem here? Why can’t writers get with the program and emblazon a giant “P” for publisher on our chests and get on with it already?
The problem is that mindsets lag behind reality. And we writers really need to get more proactive about changing our attitudes.
I understand the resistance to change many writers feel in our minds, emotions, and even in our bones because I’ve experienced it myself.
Human beings resist change. That’s simply how we are wired.
Someone revive Darwin and ask him: why the heck is evolution such a slow process?
Regardless of the answer, it’s time, writers. It’s time to wake up and start saying, “I am a publisher. You are a publisher. We are all publishers…if we want to be.”
Because this is the reality whether we like it or not.
I have a post on JaneFriedman.com today called, “6 Ways Micro-publishing Strengthens Your Author Career,” and I hope you will read it and share it with other writers.
I have a series of books on micro-publishing rolling out right now. In the first one, Permission Granted, 45 Reasons To Micro-publish, I focused on the resistance writers must get past in order to thrive and prosper in the future.
The book addresses in detail, all the ways writers may be inclined to resist micro-publishing, and how resistance to taking charge is futile.
Publishing already belongs to all of us. For years, I have been asking writers to “produce your own career.”
We need to stop resisting change. We need to embrace publishing as our inalienable right as we embrace freedom of speech. And we need to spread the word to other writers that we are allowed to be successful publishers without waiting for someone to grant us permission.
Here’s a post I wrote in 2012 on the definition of micro-publishing, if you feel like you want more info.
I wrote, Permission Granted, 45 Reasons To Micro-publish because I too experienced that writer-in-the-headlights feeling that comes from standing at the crossroads, knowing that it’s time to start seriously self-publishing, and worrying about one disastrous outcome after another.
But we really have nothing to fear from taking charge of our careers except fear itself, writers.
I hope you will read Permission Granted and identify for yourself, what, if anything is holding you back from micro-publishing.
Permission Granted is now globally available in multiple digital formats. With any remaining formats rolling out soon!
Thanks for checking out Permission Granted, and stay tuned for book two. Coming in February 2014.
I’ve been teaching micro-publishing for going on three years now. Stick around for news about a micro-pub giveaway before year’s end!