{"id":6,"date":"2008-04-17T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:17:03","slug":"diys-last-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/diys-last-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Go West!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-publishing isn\u2019t a new thing. Some of the world\u2019s classics were self-published, although I\u2019m not so arrogant as to think I rank up there with the likes of Mark Twain, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, e.e. cummings, and Alexander Dumas.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s new to me. When I was trying to get published back in the \u201990s, self-publishing (then only vanity publishing, really) was not only expensive, but the kiss of death. Now \u2026 not so much. With concepts such as ebooks, print-on-demand, and the internet itself, the technology is there to do it quickly, relatively cheaply, and to one\u2019s satisfaction (i.e., artistic control). Filmmakers have been doing this for years as have musicians.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll not go into all the reasons I decided to do this myself, but <a title=\"Published Writers Who Can\u2019t Get Agents\" href=\"http:\/\/agentinthemiddle.blogspot.com\/2008_03_30_archive.html#4214233801960903095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this post by agent Lori Perkins<\/a> validated my decision to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m all about DIY, free markets, and workaround solutions. No, I won\u2019t have a print run of 175,000. Hell, I won\u2019t even have a print run, period. But I think I have a good product that will never see the light of day unless I take the initiative. My hat\u2019s off to those who\u2019ve gone the traditional route. Either I suck as a writer or I\u2019m too far out in the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t suck as a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-publishing isn\u2019t a new thing. Some of the world\u2019s classics were self-published, although I\u2019m not so arrogant as to think I rank up there with the likes of Mark Twain, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, e.e. cummings, and Alexander Dumas. However, it\u2019s new to me. When I was trying to get published back in the [&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":[525,530,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","category-self-publishing","category-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17012,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/17012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}