Publish Nuisance

Direction

I call myself a micro publisher, maybe it should be micro-mini publisher. Sometimes I'm even embarrassed to call myself a publisher at all. Because, the publishing business evolved out of my writing, and because I've rarely run it in a businesslike manner.

It's not that I haven't tried, but, as I sometimes say, I learned how to do it right by doing it wrong, several ways. But, also, I've had to stop the business part, or slow it down for extended periods of time in order to help family members, and to recover from injury. While I was doing other things, or doing almost nothing the business would stand still, and then slowly slide backward.

I suspect I'm not the only small publisher who has been in a similar boat, sloshing along, sometimes making headway, sometimes drifting with the tide.

One of the reasons I started this blog was to chronicle my progress in making my publishing and other business ventures more businesslike, efficient, and effective. I'm hoping that sharing my own thoughts and  experiences can help readers make headway too.

About This Blog

Is that a photo of me up there on the floor with the laptop?

No, it's not. Originally, it was a Hemera Photo Objects guy dressed up as a genie, with a gold threaded turban and matching vest. I made him female, sort of, and, unintentionally, experiencing a bad hair day. It's hard to do hair-from-turban transformations in Photoshop. At least, it took me awhile, and I'm settling for what you see. Might tweak it some more later. Probably won't.

Why the title, Publish Nuisance? Oh, it's punnyish, and I liked that. I'm sort of a nuisance, not so much in publishing, but maybe there too. At least an irritant to those who disagree with some of the things I've written.

But, mostly, I wanted somewhere to write whatever I feel like writing about writing and publishing, without making a nuisance of myself on PUBLISH-L, my email discussion list for publishers and those who serve them. Since I don't want others to dominate the list, pontificate, nor editorialize overly much, I figure I'd better not do it either.

So, when I discovered a place to blog with unlimited blogs for one price, and learned how to do it, I thought, now I can write whatever I want to, and those who want to read it will, and those who don't won't even have to hit the delete key.