Amazon, Chicago, our future & the amazing book revolution
Do you like to read books? Kindle? FaceBook? Any kind of reading
material at all? Do you hang out at your local library and frequently
check stuff out? And do you also dream of writing and publishing your
very own book someday as well -- with your name on the front cover and
your photo on the back and your actual words on the pages inside
said book? Hey, why not.
These days this dream can easily come true -- because right before our eyes (literally) there has been a huge publishing revolution going
on in the past few years. Now anybody can write and publish a book. Anybody. Here's how you do it:
1. Write the book. Start on the first day of January and write just
one page a day. By December 31, you will have written 365 pages.
Booyah.
2. Go to Amazon's CreateSpace venue and pop your text into their
format. They do the rest. And they actually publish your book and list
it on Amazon as well -- at no cost to you. How do they do that?
3. Order yourself a copy and then actually hold your very own book in your hands.
Back in the Middle Ages, books were rare and wondrous things, selling
for thousands of dollars. Not just anybody could write or even read or own a
book. Times have changed since then. A lot.
When I went to BookExpo America in Chicago in early May, there were all
kinds of people selling all kinds of books. And I was also happily
hawking my latest book there too. Here was me, standing outside the
McCormick Place exhibit hall, holding 200 bookmarks containing blurbs
about my book, and trying to work up the nerve to force them onto people
standing in line to get into the Expo. "Pleeeeeze take my bookmark?"
Oh, okay.
And now I'm trying to be brave enough to hawk my book to you as well. "Pleeeeeze buy my book?" It's called Visions of a Lost and Future World
and is the story of a small clan of pre-Columbian American Indians who
somehow become immortal and then spend the next grim millennium
witnessing the horror and brutality of man's incessant inhumanity to
man. http://www.amazon.com/Visions-Lost-Future-World-Stillwater/dp/1532803850/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
And, unfortunately, after "war" ravishes our world and also pollutes it
beyond redemption, this little clan is forced to witness the end of the
human race as well. Sucks to be us.
