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Thursday Afternoon Ramblings

January 20, 2011 D.A. Adams Leave a comment

I finally found the time to format both my books for the Kindle. It’s a project that has been idling on my to-do list for two years. When I would think about it, I would be up to my eyebrows in work, and when I had the time, I wouldn’t remember to do it. However, both have been submitted for approval by the Amazon team, so I should know by tomorrow if they’re approved. I’m not 100% satisfied with how they looked on the preview screen because the Kindle strips away most formatting, but hopefully they’ll be legible enough for the average Kindle reader.

It’s fairly obvious that e-books are the future, so I’m going to try to get mine out there in as many formats as possible. Next, I’ll submit them to Lightning Source, my current printer, for them to distribute in their network. I’m hoping that these new outlets will help to get the series wider exposure. With book three nearing release, it would be nice to broaden the audience. My fellow independents can attest, often in this industry, we work and work and work without seeing much in return because making a dent in people’s consciousness has become extraordinarily difficult recently. People are so overwhelmed by commercials and marketing that a lone voice from the independent realm is often lost in the din.

Yet we still press on, hoping to build an audience and hoping that one day all of this effort and energy will be worth it. Even though we all proclaim that we don’t write for the money, most of us want at least to make our living solely from our writing, and while that doesn’t sound like an unreasonable wish for a novelist, in this country at this time, it often feels like an absurd pipe-dream. Maybe it was always this tough, and I just had unrealistic expectations. Country musicians used to call it “The long, hard road” to success, and maybe writing has always been this difficult to break into. All I know is that I’ve gotten a tremendous amount of positive feedback on my books, but to the large presses, I’m not up to par. Either my readers are fluffing my ego or the editors are out of touch. Either way, I’ll press on, writing a series that lives up to my standards and promoting as much as I can.

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Wednesday Afternoon Ramblings

January 19, 2011 D.A. Adams 4 Comments

I’m not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but I feel like a kid most of the time. When I’m standing in front of a class full of students, I often think, “What in the world makes me think I’ve got the right to pretend like I’m an expert in anything?” In social circles, even if I’m not the youngest, I often feel like I’m the least in seniority of anyone there, and when around my peers, I rarely feel as if my maturity level is as well-developed as theirs.

On the plus side, I still have childlike wonder about things that I enjoy. Because I often feel young, I rarely feel old, which I’m certain is a good thing. Despite the aches and pains in my physical self, my spirit is still vibrant and positive, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

On the down side, I often defer to others because I so often feel as if their maturity and judgment must be better than mine. Despite having experienced and overcome a lot of obstacles in my life, I still don’t feel as if I’ve earned the right to consider myself wise. I often wonder if I’ll ever feel like an adult, if there will ever come a day when I look at myself and see a grown man instead of a kid. Does anyone else feel this way? If so, please leave a comment and share your experience with this feeling.

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Monday Afternoon Ramblings

January 17, 2011 D.A. Adams Leave a comment

Let me be as clear about this as possible: this is my blog, and from day one, I’ve written about whatever was on my mind at that moment. I’m not a journalist and have never one time claimed to be a news outlet. I openly and happily admit that I’m an entertainer. This blog serves as my outlet for new ideas, heartfelt opinions, old memories, frustrations, outrages, and anything else that crosses my mind. If you don’t like my opinions, feel free to comment on that blog, openly and publicly. As long as you aren’t more profane than I am, I’ll approve it.

I don’t belong to any political party because I believe that all parties by their very nature are corrupt. The party, regardless of political affiliation, is about the garnering of power, and as such, the leadership of that party must distort facts, twist ideas, and misrepresent situations for their own benefit. To me, the leadership of the Republican party only represents the upper 2% of our population but to appeal to a broad base uses fear and hate to move people to vote against their own best interests. After 38 years of witnessing their actions, I’m pretty entrenched in this belief, and no amount of Fox News bullshit will change my mind. I also believe that the leadership of the Democratic party is a group of elitist intellectuals who want to control and manipulate people’s lives because those leaders believe they know how to live better than everyone else. In order to appeal to a broad base, they use fear and hate to move people to give up self-sufficiency.

I’ve said before, the reason why I’m more vocal in my absolute disdain for conservatives than for liberals is because I live in a very conservative region and am bombarded daily by the hate and venom they spew. I see it on bumper stickers, hear it in stores, and feel it everywhere I go. If I lived in a liberal region and were bombarded from the other end, I would vent and ridicule their perversions just as vehemently.

The bottom line is that this is my outlet. If you don’t like my views, that’s fine. Start your own blog or write comments in public for others to read and respond to. That’s free speech, one of our most sacred rights as Americans.