Writing about My Book

Read my article at The Big Smoke about BEING ALONE here

So, maybe i'm not writing about my book per-se but i'm doing a lot of writing about the topic. I'm really scared people are going to nab this idea out in the real world so i've accelerated my work speed because i need to start getting it out as soon, soon as i can before other people will start to take this angle. These past few months have provided me with even more material on the matter.
Last night at like 4am, i came up with the blurb of it and it's literally ONE sentence.
I don't know what to expect for my book. I mean, i read the other day this woman's book was finally published... after nine years of carting it around to different publishers.

I mean, that's totally the sort of reality us writers are dealing with here. And in the meantime we are trying to remain graceful towards Brandi Glanville's book deal from Beverley Hills housewives ( That's probably just me, really ). I feel like this book i'm writing on will only be marketable in a place like the states where they're more into self-help publishing because of their generally idealistic perspective on LIVES and SELF-IMPROVEMENT. That sounds like a U.S thing to me and definitely not an Australian marketplace thing. I mean, i know i should be thinking about all of this stuff after the book is done. But besides writing a book that publishers will like, it's got to also suit the context in which it was born out of.

I get scared publishers won't like it because i am not a doctor or a GP. And they'll say " What the hell, what gives you the right to tell people what to do with their lives? You aint qualified". But i feel like we hear the same old advice from doctors and GP's all the time and it DOESN'T REALLY HELP. I want to be able to offer my own take on things from a more ' realistic ' place. And even if readers don't get what they're after by the end of the book, at least they've read the book, thus having enough information to say why it was unhelpful. That's still getting something from it. It reaffirms their old beliefs which only fuels them to look for more answers in the world outside of my book.

Anyway, it's early days and as usual i'm off with the fairies. LATER X