a change of direction

Well, last Tuesday I learned I didn't make the next round of ABNA, which stung for about... ten minutes.  I was surprised by that swift acceptance, in that immediately I was thrown for a loop, hard to have one's baby slapped down.  But then it morphed into a small thrill that has grown over the week; my book belonged to me again!  I didn't expect that to be the reaction, didn't anticipate such a quick bouncing back.  Yet, here I am, and I have a plan; The War On Emily Dickinson is going to be independently published this summer, on Smashwords as an E-book, then on either LuLu or WordClay in print.  The E-book version will have wide distribution, but the print copy will be only available on the POD distributor, with no ISBN number.  That's due in part to cost; $75-99 for each print novel to go into wide distribution, where on Smashwords it's free, along with the ISBN.  Also to satisfy my desire to have an actual NOVEL in my hands, also to offer that to anyone else eschewing E-readers.  But while I'm a dinosaur on many levels, at least here I want to be progressive.  And basically, E-books is where publishing is headed, whether the big houses want to admit it or not.  One day books might be viewed like record albums, with fond wistfulness.  My print books will be for art's sake, the E-books for general consumption, for what that's worth.  Publishing my novels in this manner isn't about money, not at all.  Only that I don't want to die without having expressed all that has been created.  And first up is this novel, one for which I can't wait to sort!