If you are an author, would you be brave enough to sell your short story, short stories or novels face to face? In
this short story, this author was bold enough ... but he didn't live to tell the tale.
Writers are so often retiring flowers who prefer the tranquility of a small, hidden away personal room populated by their characters.
But story telling in the olden days was by travelling gypsies who would tell their tales around the camp fire in exchange for a meal or a place to lay their head for the night.
Even today, at summer camps around the world, small boys recount ghost stories designed to chill the bones of their fellow campers as they retire for the night into the dark shadows.
Why then should modern authors fear facing their public? Where's the harm in selling door to door? (I know somebody who used to sell
origami door to door and made a modest living.) If it's a good story, why not feel proud and get out there, sell and say goodbye to middle men publishers.
The author who is the subject of this article sold his work at open air markets from an upturned wooden box.
Would you be brave enough to do that?
See what happened to him ...Bye for now
Rob
(Rob
Hopcott -
online author and lover of a good story)
