I got two emails this morning, both for me, which is odd enough in this era of spam and business "blasts." They were even related, but from people unknown to one another, so it was doubly interesting.
The first was my contract and junk for the reprint to be published in Best American Mystery Stories. (Yay!) The second was a random email from a pseudonymous dork saying something "If you won't ever publish with the Big Five because you're so precious and political why are you bragging about being in Best American in other anthologies?" Then there was a link to amazon's Shotguns v Cthulhu page, in which I am part of the "About the Author" for some reason. (I hope Stone Skin didn't put me there because they thought I was a famous writer and that would make people buy the book. That never works!) Then there was a link to the fellow's own book, via Smashwords.
Anyway, I didn't bother answering because surely everyone knows that the Best American series is a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt book and they're not part of the Big Five. HMH is a large publisher independent, with plenty of mergers and sales and capitals and even a run on the stock exchange, but it isn't an imprint of one of the Big Five.
Indie doesn't necessarily mean small. It certainly doesn't mean "one guy and his ability to kinda turn MS Word files into Smashwords ebooks."
The first was my contract and junk for the reprint to be published in Best American Mystery Stories. (Yay!) The second was a random email from a pseudonymous dork saying something "If you won't ever publish with the Big Five because you're so precious and political why are you bragging about being in Best American in other anthologies?" Then there was a link to amazon's Shotguns v Cthulhu page, in which I am part of the "About the Author" for some reason. (I hope Stone Skin didn't put me there because they thought I was a famous writer and that would make people buy the book. That never works!) Then there was a link to the fellow's own book, via Smashwords.
Anyway, I didn't bother answering because surely everyone knows that the Best American series is a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt book and they're not part of the Big Five. HMH is a large publisher independent, with plenty of mergers and sales and capitals and even a run on the stock exchange, but it isn't an imprint of one of the Big Five.
Indie doesn't necessarily mean small. It certainly doesn't mean "one guy and his ability to kinda turn MS Word files into Smashwords ebooks."