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We at Sullivan Street Press have been busy lately making all kinds of connections with people who believe as we do about books and the culture we live in. That has been a wonderful outcome of writing here. We keep making friends all over the country. All of this is a plus as far as we are concerned.What we need is to make more of these connections. Hiring for our Itinerant Book Show is moving ahead. We love talking to people who want to be Bookies. Having something new to add to the discussion as to what books are and why they are published gives us a way to connect to lots of people when we are out on our tours.
What always astounds me as I talk to people about books is just how much finally we are all beginning to see how we have been programmed to only accept a certain type of book, a certain type of story and then when we have been fed that type to the point of disgust, they alter it somewhat so we will continue to buy books.
But one of these new friends of ours in Baltimore, Brad Grochowski, of AuthorsBookshop.com put things really well the other day. He said, every book has an audience. It may be 3 readers or three thousand. But that audience is there. So, Brad, has this wonderful business where he sells indie published books and self-published authors with this extremely democratic attitude. His bookshop is filled with 400 books that he sells on the web. We at Sullivan Street Press are quite encouraged to meet another person who sees the world of books in a similar manner to ours.
These types of connections are essential to the maintenance of a real book culture. But there are days when I feel like I have entered an alternate version of Fahrenheit 451. In this new version, we are all granted books but the choice is so poor, most are turned off and would rather rail against those who read books as elitist than seriously ask what the corporate media has done to dumb us all down so much.
If this outlook resonates with you, contact us at http://www.sullivanstreetpress.com
We would love to hear from you whether you are an author, want to be a Bookie or just want to be a part of a new movement to keep our democratic life and our literary culture alive and well despite the corporatism that threatens to eat it all up every day.
