Everyone needs to make their own decision. Both models work, but at the same time, both also fail. One has to balance the facts and estimate their chances of getting lucky too. So…taking everything into account, I’ll take my chances with Indie for now. Thanks for making me think it’s the right choice.

For now, the traditional route means you sacrifice some freedom with your property for the opportunity to get more eyeballs. One way publishers are starting to modernize is they’re coming around to the idea of print-on-demand tech to avoid huge print runs.

However, as more and more people turn to the convenience of Amazon or Barnes and Noble’s website, and as ebooks take on further market share, the viability of bookstores becomes increasingly more bleak. Bookstores will end up with less and less space, and publishers will spend their money on print runs for the big sellers, so real shelf space may not even matter in five years.

I admit the way I did the feedback was not the most time-economical choice. You should find completely banter-free versions on this website. I mimicked the way Scott Sigler did feedback with his podcasts, and I also admit that those sections went a bit long.

In an effort to establish the timeline quickly, I put in the opening “crawl,” if you will, the fact about Imperial and Rebel forces engaged over “a small green moon beyond the outer rim,” which is a deliberate reference to Endor. Maybe it seemed more like a passing reference.

Regarding feeding Stark info when he was going to ambush him later? Basically that’s because I didn’t really know where the story was going until I was writing it. I didn’t bother to go back and fine tune everything, I just sort of figured it out as I went along. A valuable lesson I certainly have taken to heart.

The humour really is great, though, such as the whole Ewok conversation. The suspense when Hodge’s ship is shot at is also pretty good.