[Petbunny] Rant about exclusion of self-published book authors.

[Lorna Appleby]

It comes under the heading of anyone can self-publish (aka Vanity
press) and that corporations have pre-weeded out the schlock for
them. If they let anyone who self-published in, they'd have to do
that work themselves - and rarely do the organizations (libraries,
etc) who are funding the contests have the resources to do that
extra work so they have to set the rule.

-Lorna 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Forum for folks with companion rabbits
[mailto:PETBUNNY at LSV.UKY.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Atchison - author
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:24 AM
To: PETBUNNY at LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: OT: Rant about exclusion of self-published book authors.

Dear folks;

I know I shouldn't complain but I do feel discriminated against
whenever a
contest or award is advertised and then I find out it isn't for
self-published authors.  I worked very hard on my books, had both
professionally edited, and all on my own dime.  Many of these
literary
contest organizers receive public funding, as do awards such as
the City of
Edmonton Book Prize.  Yet, they exclude people such as myself
because I'm
not funded by some corporation.  Those ivory tower elites really
bug me.
There's a myth going around that self-published books are shawdy
and full of
errors.  As far as I know, mine aren't.  I really feel upset
because such
contests, which people have to pay to enter, only highlight what
businesses
deem profitable and worthy of publishing instead of letting
everybody's
books compete and be judged on their literary merits.  I won't
bother
entering or even reading about such elite awards.

Respectfully,

Bruce Atchison - non-award-winning author of Deliverance from
Jericho (Six
Years in a Blind School) and When a Man Loves a Rabbit ((Learning
and Living
With Bunnies).

http://www.bookstream.biz/cgi-bin/bookstream/bookstore.cgi?overlor
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http://www.bookadz.com/whenaman.htm