David Todd McCarty on Nostr: “As far as I can tell, the market for self-published novels, especially ...
“As far as I can tell, the market for self-published novels, especially genre-specific novels, is exclusively people who self-publish genre-specific novels. It’s like if you took the storyline from a popular video game about knights and wizards, but got rid of the action and just kept the paper-thin plot and two-dimensional characters.”
~ Overheard in a New Jersey bar
#Writing #Publishing
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