“One of the problems with self-published books”

I think the above statement would be equally true with or without the “self-” in there, but in the context it’s appropriate.

From the Chicago Tribune’s solid article on the ongoing phenomenon known as A Naked Singularity.

“One of the problems with self-published books,” Wilson continued, “is that the great majority of them are boring, unreadable trash by people who not only aren’t writers, they aren’t even readers — the type of people who put ‘Published Author’ bumper stickers on their cars and who don’t buy two books a year but expect everyone else to buy theirs.

“But ‘A Naked Singularity’ was obviously the work of a serious, committed writer and reader who had a vision and no intention of sabotaging his work by trying to make it appeal to what he imagined editors, publishers or readers might want.”

The Big Read starts on June 10.

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