I Told You So!

June 3, 2017

Let me just say for the record, that I completely have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to all of this self-publishing an ebook kind of thing. The first part of my first ever published book, “The House that Insanity Built (Book One)” has now been available through Amazon.com for ten days now and there’s not been any interest in it. Not that I expected it to instantly become a best seller of course, but I’d hoped that their would be a little interest shown in it.

Yes, it’s a personal memoir - an autobiography, beginning with my early childhood years, raised by my mother who was a card carrying, honest-to-God certified paranoid schizophrenic and the insanity that was everywhere in my life in those times. In the beginning, it was never intended to be published. It was a type of exercise which was written specifically for the purpose of helping me to remember all of the bullshit in my life back then and see how during those formative years, the events that I experienced aided in the shaping and development of my adult life, of how I saw the world and reality because of it, and also perhaps it would provide some answers into that dark part of me which is the major depression that I suffer from.

Mostly serious in nature, there are moments in the book where I use humor as a sort of mask, which I recognize it for what it is! Anyway...

This whole dang publishing idea I’m going to lay on my therapist, Gary F.
Having read the original raw first draft of it, he called it highly interesting and it could possibly be interesting to others as well. As for myself, I thought that the insanity which was my childhood, dealing with poverty, insanity and being forced if you will, with having to make adult decisions at such a young age was not something that others wanted to read about! Everybody has their own problems and they’re not interested I feel, in having to read about someone else’s messed up life! No one in my opinion, wants to come home from a hard day at work or at doing whatever, kick their shoes off and put their feet up with a nice cup of tea or coffee and read about someone else’s problems!

And yes, I know it’s only been ten days since it hit the market and their might be a sudden splurge of buying activity - But for the moment, my book sits alone, no interest shown. And to my therapist, Gary F. I say.... I TOLD YOU SO!

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