Quiet Weekend

I’m looking forward to tomorrow. Mainly because I’ll be back to building my company. I’ve been debating making a youtube series chronicling my journey from the first efforts to getting my company up to its hopeful success. Two things have been preventing me from starting this. 1. I hate being on camera. I also hate the sound of my voice. I can’t seem to convince myself that it is no different than talking to people in person and I don’t seem to have a problem with my voice then. But somehow this is stopping me. 2. It might be kind of unprofessional. My goal is to build a super successful publishing company one day that will be akin to Random House. I’m not really sure if a video showing details of the struggles, fears, headaches and daily activities would be very professional.

My goal is to build a publishing company that gives authors the same kind of chances they would’ve had back in the days before you needed an agent for everything and having a social media following was mandatory. As I write this, I’m even beginning to doubt this is possible. I want to go back to doing things the old fashioned way in some ways, such as sending out physical catalogues instead of digital catalogues. I want to relay on person-to-person bookstore meetings and good old-fashioned TV interviews instead of social media ads and mailing lists. Because, seriously, NO ONE likes receiving constant sales emails. I refuse to do that to readers.

There are brilliant writers who may not be that active on social media. That shouldn’t deter them from getting a publishing contract.

Regardless of whether I chronicle this adventure or not, tomorrow is the day I get my business phone, set up the business KDP account, and get to work on the formatting of a box set that will hopefully bring in some money that will go to funding the company.

Perhaps I will film my adventures just in case and then just decide later if it’s something I want to share with the world.