Richard Grayson discovers POD
Posted by Will Entrekin on June 18, 2008
Over at The Quarterly Conversation, Richard Grayson discovers POD and Lulu. Seems to be from the current issue, which shows just how far behind the times some people can be.
I think there’s little doubt left here. The market for short work is basically null though the audience still exists for those who seek one. I’ve read what editors can do for short fiction, too, and I remain unimpressed in a way that I’m not considering long fiction.
Incidentally, Grayson’s method mirrors, roughly, that of Chris Meeks; all of the stories were published elsewhere (usually in tiny literary “magazines” with microscopic circulations) and then collected in an independently published collection.
June 19, 2008 at 3:49 am
Hi Will. Not sure what you mean by “discovers” or “behind the times.” In the article I state that I published my first POD book in 2000, eight years ago, with iUniverse’s Backinprint.com program.
June 19, 2008 at 4:05 am
In addition to publishing With Hitler in New York in June 200 with iUniverse, I also published my first Lulu book, Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida’s Fourth Congressional District, in October. 2005. Lulu had just begun to get noticed the year before. Sorry if I didn’t make the timeline clear in the article, but I didn’t mean to give the impression that I just “discovered” POD.
June 19, 2008 at 4:10 am
Oops, I meant “June 2000,” not “June 200.” I’m not that much of an early adopter!
June 19, 2008 at 8:49 am
@Richard: hello! Sorry about that; no, I hadn’t been completely clear on the timeline, but by people, I’d meant the other parties involved. Powell’s, for example (not stocking them) and Kirkus Discoveries (because Heaven forbid regular Kirkus) review them. It seems like the publishing industry is just several steps behind POD technology.
But you’re right: “discovers” was the wrong word.