Last week I was talking my editor, Lily of Hun House, through the process of setting up a create Space Print On Demand account so that she could publish Skulker Jones. In the year-and-a-half since I set up a similar account somethings have changed.
The horror category is no longer, apparently a genre of fiction. One must choose something else and use horror as a key word. My instinct is that this has to do with a desire on the part of publishers to mainstream horror in the wake of Stephan king’s massive success. My gut urge is to assign some malevolent intent on the part of Political Correctness types, but it is more realistically about the money.
However, what was really shocking was during the process of filling out the personal information.
A prospective publisher is asked if they are “an American person” which is later qualified as being a U.S. citizen or other resident of the United States.
As we watch the unravelling of the lie that no longer consists of citizens but of persons, keep an eye out for that term “American Person.” The lifecycle of that insidious semantic should be a thread of inestimable interest in years to come.
Under the God of Things
