AMA: Most Rewarding Part of Publishing?

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Transcript: My next question is what about being an indie press is the most rewarding?

The people. Yeah, hands down. I mean, I’m an introvert, I sometimes find all of the peopling involved in this job to be rather exhausting, but the community of authors and artists with whom we work is amazing and helps keep me going every single day. The community of people who I’ve met who are doing similar things, whether they’re other indie press people or self-published authors, and how hard we all work and how much we all want to lift each other up – it’s not a competition, it’s “how do we grow the pie for everybody.” And the readers and even just the supportive non-customers, just everybody, like, you know, “I don’t have any money, but what you’re doing is really cool.” Or, “this isn’t the one I’m interested in but I can’t wait to see what else you do.” And of course, the people who are like, “I read the book and it’s awesome” or “this piece of art is amazing, I need the sticker. Obviously, you know, every version of that is the best part.

I do this for the people. I do this because I wanted to be a writer but I didn’t want to do it alone. And, I don’t have to it alone and that’s really great. Thank you, everyone. You make this awesome every day.

I’m Claire. I’m doing an Ask Me Anything. Uhhh…hit me up if you’ve got anything you wanna ask me! Bye!