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The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

Publishing is not my world.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.