Grrrrrr.....
I always fail miserably at my earnest attempts to be funny. My lame jokes fall flat, like pancakes that go 'slap slap' on a non-stick pan. After a while, the novelty falls out.
One shouldn't complain at all when at least there are still followers.
But I'm getting pretty good at pointing out to professional writers on possible methods they can employ to 'spice up' their piece of art, literally.
As I plod along clumsily in what must be my career for a very long time to come, I suddenly realise one thing, if I weren't idiotic enough to realise it a long time ago.
None of the people you read out there are people they are if it weren't for the horde of people working round the clock to make sure what they write gets presented to you in a reader-friendly presentation. Or method. Or style of writing. So Stephen King would not be King if not for some unknown people behind him like the editor (whose job is to ensure his Subjects and Verbs agree with each other, and to ensure the chapters flow and make sense, and sometimes rewrite particular sections when the author-almighty is no where to be found), the designer of the cover of course (most of us would have experienced that one time when we bought a book because of the cover alone), and the typesetters (typesetters, baby, they make a page flow relevantly and ensure that chapter one sticks within the pages of chapter one, chapter two in chapter two and so on).
And this group of people behind that one book that helps King makes his bestselling millions probably earn less than 10% of what he is making. They probably work round the clock on Saturdays and Sundays like how the designers, typesetters, illustrators and myself work just to get a book completed on time. At the end of the day when the book gets out, our names dissappear into oblivion and the author gets 'famouser and famouser' and credit goes to his sheer genius. No one calls the book cover designer a genius, no one even admits to having two to three editors to work on one single book.
This world ain't fair.
