InsaneJournal

Um. Music post tomorrow, I think. I have the songs picked out but not uploaded or blathered about. Tomorrow is still a weekend for me, though, so it totally counts. I can brighten your Monday with mp3s!

Tomorrow I also have a paper to write on Bellamy Clubs and the Chicago Tribune's frothing hatred of socialism in the late 19th century. As opposed to the Trib's current frothing hatreds! Though, to be fair, they're pretty good about the frothing lately. The sports page is by far the wankiest, they're always getting into it with the Sun Times. But I digress. It shouldn't be as bad as most of my term papers because it's supposed to be much shorter and poor Professor Schultz was like "...but you have enough to write a paper with just that," when I was going ON AND ON about how I wanted to find sources on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and other early SF novels, could only find tons of articles on the evils of Looking Backward.

Also, he mistook me for a history major. I do not need to switch my major another eight times.

And semi-related, but the reason I am exhausted right now, what is it with everybody and their crazy aunt saying "You know, I need to publish this novel. I KNOW, I WILL SELF-PUBLISH! ...good, now that's over with and I have all these books in my garage! Hey, you, random person on the Internet! How do I sell my books?"

It's not that I'm against self-publishing. I accept that there are situations where it's the only logical choice, even if it isn't your great-grandmother's recipe book. I just don't see why you'd put in the effort to self-publish without either accepting that hardly anybody will hear about your book, or doing some research into what it takes to publicize a book without the backing of a publisher.

Also, uh, you might want to get a blog, or at least an LJ. And for the love of Gutenberg, proofread your website. And make sure the graphics don't suck.

I mean, let's face it, if you're so bad at this that I can give you advice you haven't heard, you are not doing well. I am the girl who doesn't advertise her fanfics in the appropriate communities for fear of seeming egotistical. If I know it, everybody probably knows it.