Impostor Assassin

Chapter 2-3

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE publishing?

By Novel Killers

An Original Song

You get on with life as an author,

You're a serious kinda person.

You like reading comics on Sundays,

You like watching football in the week.

You like to contemplate writing.

But when you start to daydream,

Your mind turns straight to publishing.

Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!

Do you love publishing more than writing?

Do you love publishing more than writing?

You like to use words like 'juicy,'

You like to use words like 'typo.'

You like to use words about writing.

But when you stop your talking,

Your mind turns straight to publishing.

Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!

Do you love publishing more than writing?

Do you love publishing more than writing?

You like to hang out with Alice,

You like to kick back with Emily,

But when left alone,

Your mind turns straight to publishing.

Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!

Do you love publishing more than writing?

Do you love publishing more than writing?

You're not too fond of rejection letters,

You really hate disappointment,

But you just think back to publishing,

And you're happy once again.

Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!

The “Novel Killers” got a standing ovation.

There was even louder cheering and applause as the music band left the conference hall.

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SUSIE HUGHES NEXT CAME on stage and delivered her speech on the “Publishing Powers of the Literati.”

“The Golden Age of the Literati”, was an article written by Susie Hughes in the Literary Snowstorm Chronicles. She had interviewed a large number of Indie Authors and self-publishers and noticed the freedom and sense of achievement almost all of them had. Most of them did not worry about a book deal. It was just a matter of getting their materials published and out in the world to be read. There was more freedom in the way a person could write on a topic and then release it out into the world, like any other author.

The day marked the death of conventional writing and publishing.

The corpses of author rejection letters, faded, yellow and brittle lined the gutters at the end of the five day conference of Indie publishing.

But, is this freedom of writing and publishing a boon or a curse?