Looking at It Friom Another Direction

I have another question about a picture.  See below.

Let's Try That Again

I should know better than to ask a bunch of authors and heavy readers to come up with captions for a picture. 

I asked you all to look at a graphic I made and tell me what you saw.  You can find both the image and the fabulous and highly creative suggestions you came up with at http://nanhawthorne.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-this-picture-say-to-you.html .

One person out of all of you got what I was after.. but that's not a complaint.. it was exactly what I wanted to know. I learned that I make really interesting images... and I need a new one for my new project!

What It Was All About

My husband and I are setting up a new Amazon Associates bookseller site dedicated to books published by authors who have run into a brick wall with the now quite risk adverse publishing industry.  You've heard it called the "vanity press".  We think of it as the "creativity press".   These are folks who saw the wall and went over or around it.  Some of the books coming out of this independent publishing movement are every bit as and often better than what you will find on brick and mortar bookstores.  The trouble is that the usual ways you learn about books largely exhibit a bias against indie books.  They are hanging onto stereotypes that need to go the way of all the others.  These books are well written, well produced, and definitely filling a niche in danger of becoming vacant.  If you have a genre interest or other nonmainstream interesst or approach, you will want to know your type of book is out there.. and know where to find it.

And that is where Books Outside the Box comes in.    Jim and I are setting up business as an Amazon Associates bookseller web site dedicated exclusibvely to indie books.  These will be self published, POD published, and very small press books.  We plan to market the site broadly enough to create awareness of these treasures so that, as we devoutly believe should be the case, readers regain control from the multileveraged corporate world as to what is out there to read.

So that is what that image was supposed to say... but it didn't quite do it.

Your Next Assignment! 

You don't need to pixk up a pencil or crayons.. just tell us, what images should go into a logo for a web site called "Books Outside the Box"?

Leave your comments below.  And thanks again.. and for all the wonderful laughs.