The Publishing Story of My Journals - A Literary Market Odyssey

The Imaginomicon-Manifesto

The Self-Publishing and Printing Story

of

The Collected Journals

of

JM Matthews

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I struggled for a long time with these journals. Not so much with actually writing them, but with finding a commercial market for a new kind of literary genre: Memoir-JournalLiving Manual.

I was writing it, and after a year of writing, I knew those journals were good. But I couldn't see or find any form of actual tangible market or business to publish them in, other than DIY Print-on-Demand Self-Publishing. At first I published them privately, but eventually I made the books public, on Amazon, Lulu, Book Tango, and Scribd, and later embedded the Scribd books into a blog entry at blogger. But it was a struggle getting the public interested in me or my book series. It was a long and difficult struggle of a journey . With very little feedback from anyone outside of my parents and an occasional comment from Jerry Conser, and a few other people I shared my Journals with.

The manuscript is riddled with babblings and grammatical and spelling errors, mostly because it's still a first draft I never revised and wrote very quickly.

But the thing is, Iknew I had created a special book at one point, once the first or second book was binded, printed, and I purchased my own copy for the first time. I knew I could find an entire career in these manuscripts if I could just figure out how to market them and sell them the right way, as is, and not adapt them into a "story" or narrative, which is something I found a bit unnecessary, as it's still somewhat of not just a log and diary, but a commentary, lyricism, and academic work, as it deals with academic subjects such as art, literature, production methods, pop culture, and cinema. The writing style was also very advanced for the age I wrote the first 2 books at. The 16 and 17 year old range. I had 2 books completed by the age of 17. 

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