Shameless Self-Promotion vs. Shameful Self-Promotion
Frankly I find all self-promotion shameful. I grew up with a generation of writers, naive and misguided perhaps, who believed the work spoke for itself. A literary book was not a commodity in the marketplace and its audience was small (elite!) by definition. We wanted respect and admiration not fortune and fame.
But the literary world like the world at large has changed. In today's environment I'm not sure how I would fit in. Certainly not as a writer, defined today almost exclusively as outside-in work. Maybe as ... ???
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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