07.22.06
So, it’s all set…
We’ve got everything together. Hopefully by the end of next week we will have the solicitation packets out. Then it’s just a matter of waiting. It’s one thing to be waiting on yourself or on your partner, but it’s something else entirely when you are waiting on someone you don’t even know to tell you whether you will get a chance to put your stuff out there or not.
I suppose that’s not fair. We could put our stuff out there without a distributor. If it comes down to that, maybe we will. We were set to move about 500 copies of issue #1 when it came out in March. How many of those will we lose since we had to delay our release? I don’t know. Hopefully not many.
You know what the worst part is? We came THIS close in March. It’s the best part too, I guess. If FM had been around a month later we would have had an issue printed and they would have gone under before we could get paid for it. Then I’d be left with a printing bill and no money coming in for the issues that did sell, not to mention the ones that may or may not have made it to stores that ordered them.
I read all the time about people in the industry saying stuff like “Why would you want to get into this business? It’s awful! Save yourself the grief! Get another job!” Those people need to either get a real job and then come back to the rest of us and tell us how enjoyable that is, or remember what it was like when the DID have a regular 9-5, or just get out of the industry, because they are so obviously jaded they aren’t enjoying themselves.
You’re going to spend about 1/3 of your life working at your job. You should at least TRY to do something for that 1/3 of your life that you will enjoy.