some aspect of make-believe about it but mostly it’s about finding the people who need your book.
that’s where i get hung up. do you need my book? it’s not food. it’s not shelter. it’s not health insurance. it’s just a book, right? people can live without books. some may not be happy about it – but it’s doable. you could have a perfectly good life without ever reading fiction.
and even if you could make the case that somebody needs a fiction book – which clearly thousands of authors have done – the question that still remains for me is, do they need my book?
a few weeks ago, i had dinner 