The
Imaginomicon-Manifesto
The
Self-Publishing and Printing Story
of
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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