An author is an author

Whether you are a traditionally-published author or an independently-published author, you are an author.

Whether you are a traditionally-published author or an independently-published author, you are an author.

Indeed, the worlds of ‘traditional’ and ‘independent’ publishing are interchangeable, just as they are within other creative industries. The creator economy isn’t a separate “thing” in and of itself that has magically appeared as its own entity; rather, it’s an entity that’s being born from the economy — the infrastructure — that already exists.

The publishing landscape is quickly changing because so many new possibilities continue to emerge — as the worlds of “traditional” and “independent” continue to dance with one another and give rise to new and interesting ways of publishing; that is, to write and share one’s words.

And so, an author is an author, no matter ‌how one has published their words. Just like a writer is a writer.

By way of an explanation…

If you write things, you are a writer.

If you’ve written words and have crafted them into a book, whether that’s a digital book or a physical book or an audiobook, you are an author.

Who am I to tell you how long or short that book needs to be? Or how many words or pages it needs to be?

One doesn’t need permission to be a writer or an author, from anyone or anywhere. One simply needs to write words.

from,

Jasraj