Is your book a high-value item, or a low-value item?
Last week I attended MidAmericon II, the 74th Worldcon, which was held in my home metro area of Kansas City. As the author of a recently-finished (but not yet published) novel, I was a bit more finely attuned to the crosscurrents (perhaps “riptides” would be a better description) of opinion about publishing that could be observed in action at this convention than I have been in some time. Between the panels, the readings, the parties (such as they were) and the…