Forum / Self-Published Novel On Amazon.

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 18, 04:40pm

  For anyone who is interested. I apologize in advance for the price. I had no choice. https://www.amazon.com/Harmonica-Novel-Chris-Okum/dp/B0GSVQW2VM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1DA5BY9ZOW3RM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4ARSBRwwplYMyWa_RMZecOwuz3n5EtmZVexXR43fdAn6PrLMkOHsfLIgEYayGB5V0OTpWrKsOkqQdCiDs3Nr3V_-CnzipOowFiktwHI2WdwHeOu9hfZr6MwFKbcd_9AuCQc_0FZvYn8OqXni2P63Jx4fQkBWG-i0wT0YkjNIuvidYCKrAetK0kKNkL5YPRf16Y-RRqLpDGN-LF1ZdpGtwh0Pj-50s6QCNYoEs4d2B9w.TbP33sHaclxqkmlqqV_b-NU7J1wYwElRR59FNgLlY4E&dib_tag=se&keywords=harmonica+a+novel&qid=1773851960&sprefix=%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-1

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  eamon byrne

  Mar 19, 09:22am

  Well done Chris. I just ordered hard cover copy from amazon. Your price is a normal one, no apologies necessary. So looking forward to reading it. Cheers, Eamon

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  David Ackley

  Mar 19, 01:55pm

  Ditto to Eamon from me, Chris. Very glad to have your work in hand where I can really give it the attention it deserves.

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 19, 05:15pm

  Thank you, Eamon and David. That was very, very nice of you. I would like to do the same if you have books that are available for purchase. Please let me know.

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 19, 05:18pm

  The other novel I self-published on Amazon back in October - Dead Hand - costs 60 dollars. That's why I made sure this current book was half the size. I think 60 dollars for a novel by a no one is obscene. I don't understand why it costs Amazon so much to publish a book.

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  David Ackley

  Mar 19, 08:24pm

  Jeff needs your money.

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  Amanda Harris

  Mar 19, 08:42pm

  Congratulations, Chris!

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 19, 09:11pm

  Anyone can do it, Amanda. It's simple. If I had been able to publish with a legit publishing house I believe congrats would be in order. But to self-publish feels slightly dirty to me, like I'm putting on a one-man 'Death of a Salesman' at some small theater I rented next to a Jersey Mike's.

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  David Ackley

  Mar 19, 11:25pm

  By the way, Whitman self-published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass."

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 19, 11:55pm

  I would assume that self-publishing back in the day was probably a lot harder than it is to get a legit publisher to publish your work today. It's too easy today. That being said, getting even a tiny small press in Glasgow to read your work is almost impossible. I don't understand why it's so hard to get work published by people who don't even publish hardly anything? I feel like everyone who goes into publishing is just doing it so they can feel that warm squelchy feeling you get from being a gatekeeper. I feel like that's all anyone wants to be these days, a person who gets to stand between another person and the thing that other person would like to do. I don't understand this world.

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  David Ackley

  Mar 25, 02:51pm

  Just a note on a partial first reading: rarely do I find a book these days that contains something I have not seen before, and where each section I read entices me to the next, not because I want to see what will happen to the characters, but because it will display, with an unsurpassed fecundity, a new shard of some fundamentally altered reality as if I, as the author had himself for his part, to re-invent myself as reader almost from page to page.

  Even at this stage, I can highly recommend HARMONICA to any and all.

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 25, 05:39pm

  Thanks for reading, David. My aim was to at the very least write a novel that didn't look like any other novel published recently. I worked really hard on the form of the thing. I wanted to make a book out of other books. I think you will probably be one of two or three people who reads the book, so, again, my appreciation that you are reading it is something I can't really quantify.

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  Chris Okum

  Mar 25, 05:42pm

  Just one addendum: to me the best work of fiction written in the last 50-60 years is J.G. Ballard's 'The Atrocity Exhibition,' and I highly recommend to anyone who has not read. If my novel can even reach 25% of that novel I will consider it a win.

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  Dianne McKnight-Warren

  Mar 26, 05:18pm

  I just bought it! (I'm behind on everything.)

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  Darryl Price

  Mar 28, 05:56pm

  I wish I could afford it, but even without seeing it, I can tell anyone listening that it will be worth your time. I honestly can't remember anything I've read by Chris Okum that wasn't beautifully prepared, interesting to digest, fun to explore and just plain great to experience.

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