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authors, Dr. Phil’s wife, Harry Potter series, High profile, hollaback girl, J.K. Rowling, platforms, publishers
…and I’m certainly not Dr. Phil’s wife! I’m just little ol’ me!
It’s astonishing that in order get a publisher to pick you up, you must have a high-profile; or as it’s often referred to in these days of social media…a “Platform.”
Really? What about the lady who wrote the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling? I’m not quite sure what her platform was, but I could have sworn she was next to homeless and living in her car, right? Well, something like that….
Oh well, another “no,” but a good “no!” It’s the “no” I was looking for actually…now I’m that much closer to my big YES!
Here’s to all those authors who have PLATFORMS…God bless you! You don’t even need to have talent, your name will sell the books for you. And what’s that all about anyway? Authors need to be able to sell their own books now? I mean, call me stupid but if we could do it on our own, why would we need a publisher? Nobody wants to do their job anymore…they want others to do it for them, or even better yet, get paid for doing nothing. Obviously the publishing business is no different – LOL! 
Well, money certainly talks, and once success hits then everyone wants a piece of the action; revealing isn’t it? Reminds me of a childhood tale where the moral of the story was:
You didn’t help me make it, and you’re not gonna help me eat it either!
Another lesson in life…count on no one, and you won’t be disappointed. Believe in yourself and GOD, and you’ll go far!
Holler’n from my modest platform… “MUCH LOVE TO YOU!”
Mary
A southern writer named John Kennedy Toole wrote a comic novel about life in New Orleans
called A Confederacy of Dunces. It was so relentlessly rejected by publishers that the
author killed himself. That was in 1969. John’s mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, refused
to give up on the book. She sent it out and got it back, rejected, over and over again.
At last she won the patronage of Walker Percy, who got it accepted by the Louisiana State
University Press, was released in 1980, and in 1981 it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction!
“It is a great pity that John Kennedy Toole is not alive and well and writing.
But he is not, and there is nothing we can do about it but make sure that this gargantuan tumultuous human tragic-comedy is at least made available to a world of readers.”
—Walker Percy
Truly Amazing AND inspiring! Thank you brother Micaele for this!
Obama – ‘If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen’
You know, funny you bring that up, because I have not quite known how to take this ‘theory,’ but I think the best rebuttal is “if you want something done right, do it yourself!” But then what would the response to THAT be? “You only ‘think’ you did it yourself!?” LOL….