A Hitch in Time - Would My Nightmare be a Bestseller?

It’s best to grimace like a tough guy nowadays, like when you ride on the New York subway especially in Brooklyn..”

I counted myself lucky that Hitch at Booknook.biz would even bother to communicate with me once she knew I was disinclined to spend a red cent on eBook design given the fact that I was the Greatest Author the World Will Ever or Never Know, and probably never because I was not about pay literary agents or bow down and beg legit publishers to approve and publish my work at their expense.

Of course I expected Hitch to recognize me for what I really was, and that was not one of the million or so fools every year whose vanity gives them cause to expect their ebook will rise to the top of some kind of best seller list after paying predators thousands of dollars for cover design and the like, not even in a category with only a hundred books to choose from, without suffering a large deficit for promotion.

Besides, I was not about to submit to humiliation! So I was surprised by this note from Hitch. She must have recognized my true worth from the enormous, mostly hostile traffic I got on my three posts in the KDP Amazon blog before the moderators shut them down.

“You told me you were not interested in prostituting yourself to the market. May I ask what your objective is then? You mentioned you wanted to be the greatest author the world would ever or never knew.”

“I endeavor to be a successful loser for the time being,” I responded.

“What do you mean by that?”

“It is better to be a successful loser than be wrecked by success. If you are absolutely good, that is, god, or greater than the greatest thing that can be thought, you will be crucified. “

“So you are afraid of success? Why waste time writing?”

“Because of a dream I had long ago. I dreamed that I had persuaded myself to further divide David Arthur Walters, a combination of the names of my ancestors, into multiple personalities, and to conjure up a compelling plot.”

“Tell me about it.”