WHEN I STARTED THIS BLOG, I very arrogantly chose the URL http://authorshannonryan.blogspot.com. I did this for one important reason: http://shannonryan.blogspot.com is taken by this guy.
In my haste, I apparently failed to realized that terms like author and novelist are reserved for people who actually sell books, and not people who merely hope to someday sell any of the several novels they have written. The concept is spelled out well in this post by Justine Larbalestier.
Maybe I will feel differently about it someday, but right now, I think writing is too difficult and the club of people who actually do it is to small to get hung up on a bunch of labels. Besides, I intend any appearance that I am selling my work will be true soon enough.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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