Everything is lame until it’s cool. Everything is unsuccessful until it succeeds.
Progress in this world is made only when people of vision defy conventional wisdom and show the world what is truly possible.
Science-fiction movies were a joke until George Lucas made Star Wars. Everybody knew that fantasy films were ridiculous until Peter Jackson made The Lord of the Rings. And who could have imagined 50 years ago that comic book heroes would one day rule the box office?
The same story has played out in the publishing industry: everybody knew that there was no money to be made in young adult books until Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games.
Nobody had use for a computer... until they did. Nobody shopped online... until they did.
The conclusion? THINGS CHANGE.
When “they” tell you that a thing is impossible, they really mean that it is impossible FOR THEM. But since that fact doesn’t sit well with their egos, they’d like you to believe that you are no more capable than they.
Today, “everybody knows” that independent publishing is just for hacks and wanna-be authors.
Sounds familiar...
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