Kudo?....Or Crud???

I got Editor's Choice at iUniverse.

Bully for me. A vanity press thinks my book is better than most of the crap they get over the transom. One guy commented on a post a while ago that self-publishing marks your work as garbage. Maybe he's right...

Or..... maybe he can kiss my ass.

Consider:

• since iUniverse publishes anything for money, many of those books are crap
• but some of them sell very well 
• and are picked up by traditional publishers
• and even films (Legally Blonde)
• so some of them are pretty good
• and Jane of the Jungle is one of the best among the good.

So, is it a kudo, or not? Should I feel honored, or just thanked for the money I paid them? What would Jane of the Jungle do?

• She would take the honor and blow it up to utter bullshit proportions.
• She would tell f*cking EVERYONE.
• Don't wanna listen? Too bad.
• She would walk around with the confidence of someone who really DOES shit rose petals.
• If some guy snickered she would shoot him.
• She would bully agents with the news.
• She would have a celebratory drink.
• She would enter the book in contests.
• And have another drink.

Here's hoping they can get it printed by April 15, which is the deadline for the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Contest. It will be close. But it would be terrific to win something, anything. I got a bunch of attention for a book excerpt that won Honorable Mention in a Writer's Digest contest, and an agent actually called me. Maybe I could get a small miracle here.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." All too often in my life, that first step has been  backwards off a ladder, or sideways into a hole, or forward into a fresh dog turd....but... she takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Here goes.