The title refers not only to one of my favorite songs but the name of the proposal I’m currently working on. The operative word here is sometime, not every time. You’ve got to have a few wits in your head and a few brain cells on the ball.
Pity poor RWA then, that always seems to be putting it’s foot in its own mouth. This time–the new definition of what constitutes a vanity publisher. According to Booksquare:
. . .publishers whose primary means of offering books for sale is through a publisher-generated Web site;
Booksquare is quoting here and I’m not sure where from, but all I can say is Huh?
That automatically exes out all e-publishers who, shock of shocks, sell their books from their sites. Some authors from some of these houses earn more than houses publishing paper and ink books. Yet somehow e-publishers are vanity presses? Go figure.
Why can’t RWA get its head out of the e-sand and realize that the changes they are a comin’? It’s a new millennium with new media, new forms of delivery, perhaps new kinds of content. Anytime you can have reading material on your phone, it’s time to upgrade the level of technological and innovative savvy of an organization, not retreat to the Stone Age of intolerance.
Unfortunately for romance writers it seems that RWA leadership would rather see the organization remain a dinosaur rather than embrace the new days to come.
