Here it is – the Month Without Monsanto blog in book form. Well, here’s a mock up of the cover at least. In case you’re new, I created this book to give as a thank you to folks who donated to my new Digging Deep food awareness campaign (our new website will be launching soon).
It’s my first foray into Print On Demand and I feel very fortunate to have an opportunity to explore the world of POD with this kind of low pressure project.
Like many writers, I have a certain bias against self publishing. As a fiction writer (mostly) I feel like the hurdles of finding an agent and then a publisher act as a kind of vetting process. When I pick up a book at the book store, I know that at least a handful of people thought this story was good enough to put money and man power behind. With a self published book you really only have the author’s word that their story is good and that, to me, has always seemed like asking a new parent if their baby is cute.
Then there are the small presses. I don’t consider these publishers the same as POD. Take for instance Eye Muse Books. A friend of mine started this company to publish a line of truly awesome travel books. Though she is technically self publishing, she is selling her books through traditional venues (book stores) which has the effect of bringing that vetting process to life.
It sounds like I’m saying that someone (besides you or your mom) has to think your book is worth money for it to be a good read. That’s not true, but when there are so many books I want to read in this world, a book that has the endorsement of someone else (be it publisher or book store proprietor) is more likely to get my attention.
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