Due To Lack Of Interest…

November 20, 2008 · Posted in General 
When I was growing up, I remember my mom had one book in particular with a title that always caught my eye: “Due To Lack Of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled”.  Never read it myself, but she said it was good.  The title, though, I think of at least once a week even to this day.  It has just the right amount of absurdity to stick out.  I swore I’d find some way to rip it off someday.

That day is now.  I’m closing up shop on the writing/business stuff.  I know I said this earlier this week, that I’d give it until next week before I stopped trying to push the book, but it’s gotten to be too much and I’m frankly tired of it.  It’s causing problems at home with my wife, and as some of you may know or have figured out, I have “problems” of my own anyways, and it’s aggravating them.

It’s just not worth it.

As a great poet once said “No one said it was easy/No one ever said it would be this hard…”  I bit off a hell of a lot more than I could chew, and it’s time to spit it out and find something a little easier to swallow.

So, yes, I’m doing what I’ve threatened to do for about a week now.  I’m doing what I’ve been whining towards for the past few days.  I’m giving up.  Here’s the game plan.

I had been planning on offering a special discounted price on Like Glass to members of my fan page and the group I have on there.  That is no longer the case.  I’m extending that 20% discount to everyone, effective immediately, and continuing until I decide otherwise.  Details are at the end of this post.

Like Glass will still be available in paperback through the first of the year at least.  After that, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it.  I may release it digitally for free under a creative commons license.  I may try and auction the rights just to get them out of my way.  I may just let it collect digital dust on my hard drive.  I’ll decide that when the time comes.

Chocolate For Dogs will once again be my personal blog and will no longer be a marketing utility.  This means there will probably be a lot more whining when I’m in my down-swing days.  There will probably even be days I blog about being suicidal or other fun topics like that.  I may start talking about programming, or I may give up the fight and talk about writing.  I’ve kept myself from talking about either of those, because neither software developers nor authors buy novels from websites they go to for information.  I say this from my own experience, on both sides of the computer.

In other words, expect Chocolate for Dogs to be more “me” and less “Matthew Cory, Author of Like Glass“.

Shattered will come out as Shattered comes out.  I’m not concerned about it one way or another right now.  If it gets written, then great; if not, well … you have my apologies.  If it gets to the point where I truly think it’s dead, I may release it “as-is” just for kicks, so that anyone who had any kind of interest in where Rob et al. may go can get a little bit of fulfillment.

I will continue writing as the mood strikes me.  That’s something that I’m not giving up on, and I don’t want anyone to think that.  The only difference is that I’m not going to necessarily let anyone else know about it.  I know myself too well, and I can’t deal with trying to get myself out in the public eye.  Hell, I don’t deal too well just trying to find someone else who can get me into the public eye.

It’s been an interesting trip, and I can’t say I’d do it again, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.  Thank you everyone for your support.

To get the 20% discount on Like Glass, go to this site and place your order.  In the next screen or two, there’ll be a box for a discount code.  Enter ARKH8A5Y in the box and place your order — you should see the price difference before you commit your sale.  If you have any problems, let me know.
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