“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” —Harry Truman
There’s no doubt about it: publishing is hard. But sometimes authors get so caught up in the publishing aspect of the profession that we forget the reader doesn’t give a darn how the book was made, researched, written, published, or promoted. A reader wants to find a good story and feel that it is theirs. They’ve taken this story into their lives and committed hours and days to reading it in the hopes that it might improve their quality of existence — or at a minimum, provide an experience to remember and something they can recommend to others.
While this may sound weird to you, after committing so much time and effort into creating this story, the endgame is not to get credit for the book. The real endgame is to give the world a great story experience.
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