- Hot or not? Would you kick a rumspringing Amish guy out of your bed?
- Maybe you don’t want a con man in charge of the books? Just a suggestion, really. But we love ourselves a redemption story, so it’s OK.
- Oh no! The Mennonite model has been kicked off. This is terrible! Not as terrible as Adam losing to triangle-mouthed Kris but terrible nonetheless!
- Speaking of Adam Lambert, if he can’t sell guy-liner to the Amish, no one can.
- Pennsylvania depression art: what goes around, comes around.
- Oh Leo. Such a good question.
- So what’s the difference between US Amish genre lit and Canadian Mennonite genre lit? Do they actually have sex in theirs?
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I didn’t know we (Canada) had generic Mennonite story publishers.
I went to the publisher’s website and it sounds like vanity press, which I wouldn’t dignify with the word “literary”. I don’t think there’s a single good thing to say about vanity publishing.
There is actually strong support for our arts, including multicultural arts. It’s understood that some things have a value to the wider Canadian cultural scene even though they may not even break even.
Books do not have to sell thousands of copies in order to be published here by legitimate publishers if they have an actual literary value. And generally, if they can’t be published by a real publisher and not a mere printing press, they ought not to see the light of day. It is one of my pet peeves that people who would never assume that just because they learned to play the recorder in grade school, that they don’t necessarily have the talent to play the flute for a major orchestra. And yet it sometimes seems that every kid who learned to write his name thinks he has the ability to be a writer, if he only had the “time” or if the publishers weren’t so stupid they didn’t recognize the inherent “greatness” in their mundane, mostly illiterate musings.
It makes me want to cover my ears and say lalalalalala. If a book is worth reading, the writer doesn’t ever, ever have to pay for the publishing of it.