Sarah does Dallas, Like it or Lump it.

Having a hell of a day so far, how about you? I’ve got a new book coming out on Saturday, October 1st, my publicists and I have been working on it hot and heavy, for about six months. We’re getting down to the wire and seem to be stepping on as many land mines as we miss. Today I was told by the only local bookstore in the area, wait the only one that isn’t a collage bookstore, that they don’t carry local authors. Explain to me why you want to be a local author when the local bookstores won’t carry you, even though the books are placed in the store, on consignment? The large bookstores, proved they wanted to squeeze local writers and bookstores out of business a couple years ago, now the local stores are giving up on local authors too, so much for sticking together. The large bookstores have gotten so far away from what their customers want, they are dropping like flies. So I’ll answer all the e-mails I’ll get asking where the book is available locally and tell them we don’t have a bookstore here. I’ll be sure to point them toward Amazon, you can bet, I make more on an e book anyway. Still I really like to be able to send people to a real, honest to goodness, store to buy one. The book, newspapers and the written word, in general is diminished every day and I’m doing my part to keep them going. It’s a shame that others in this industry don’t have enough sense to band together and try to fight the large ravenous publishing houses. We’ll continue to read the only things they see fit to publish, things like, Sarah does Dallas or Obama is the antichrist, give me a break.
Add to this, I made a little video to send to my family and close friends on Facebook. I didn’t want to plaster it all over everyone’s wall and was sending it as a private message. I was pretty much writing a little personal note and sending it individually, which is a lot of work. Facebook sent me a message stating I was engaging in repetitive behavior and could no longer place videos on facebook. Furthermore, if I insisted on trying too, I would be removed from facebook permanently. What the hell, why do I have 2000 friends if I’m annoying? Isn’t that why I’ve collected all my friends, family and fans in the same place, so we can keep up with each other? So in the end, we’ll have our freedom of speech, but it will do no good as money will eventually decide what we can and cannot say in America or will at least decide what is relevant.