{"id":133,"date":"2008-09-22T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=133"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:28:47","slug":"so-whats-stopping-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/so-whats-stopping-you\/","title":{"rendered":"So what&#8217;s stopping you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve referenced <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/diys-last-frontier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agent Lori Perkins<\/a> before because she\u2019s not constantly talking about how to write a better query or cheerleading constantly.  YOU!CAN!DO!IT! YES!YOU!CAN! as if the odds of being picked up by an agent and, in turn, a publishing house aren\u2019t astronomical. (And for a pittance, even.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, today\u2019s LoriPost <a href=\"http:\/\/agentinthemiddle.blogspot.com\/2008_09_14_archive.html#5830335139181154943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Does This Economic Downturn Mean For Writers?<\/a> is even more sobering for those of you still laboring in the shadow of the faint hope of The Call:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>These publishing companies work so far in advance, that when they decide to slow down acquisitions, they can literally just stop buying for 6 or 9 months. And that\u2019s what I predict will happen here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet the news with epublishing is exciting, the industry vibrant and growing, niche markets blossoming as readers find what they want to read that isn\u2019t the SSDD the gatekeepers must buy to maintain their bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s time for more writers to shake the dust of [sneer] self-publishing (otherwise more properly known as <strong><em>independent<\/em><\/strong> publishing) off their feet and make like the shoppers at Home Depot:  Do it yourself. Yeah, it\u2019ll take some time, quite a bit of money if you do it right (e.g. and *ahem* avoid the more egregious vanity\/subsidy presses, pay an editor, hire a graphic designer), a complete 180-degree shift in your thinking and attitude, and a helluva lot of hard work (details! O, the details!) but you\u2019re in control.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom, man.<\/p>\n<p>My mother once asked me, \u201cWhy are you basing your goals on decisions someone else has to make?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve referenced agent Lori Perkins before because she\u2019s not constantly talking about how to write a better query or cheerleading constantly. YOU!CAN!DO!IT! YES!YOU!CAN! as if the odds of being picked up by an agent and, in turn, a publishing house aren\u2019t astronomical. (And for a pittance, even.) Anyhoo, today\u2019s LoriPost What Does This Economic Downturn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,525,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-publishing","category-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17250,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/17250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}