“Unlocking the Secrets of Unfulfilled Aspirations: Brian Lee Knopp Dives Deep in ‘Dreams I’m Never Gonna See'”
Knopp: Self-publishing was something I fell into, so I don’t know if I am either the best spokesperson for or skeptic against it. With Mayhem in Mayberry I was committed to taking the well-worn path of collecting rejections innumerable, but a mysterious and near fatal illness compelled me to self-publish or perish unpublished—literally—and so Cosmic Pigbite Press was born. And it worked out rather well for me, so I did it again with Dreams I’m Never Gonna See.
Speaking only from my own experience, I think if you keep your expectations lower than your fear of failure, you won’t be disappointed. As primarily a nonfiction writer, I share the same imperative as The Whos in Whoville: “WE ARE HERE! WE ARE HERE!” We are all looking and hoping for the right Horton(s) to hear us. You know the old saying in the music industry that on any given night, the band you are watching and listening to might be the greatest band ever? That is what I have striven for in writing: that somewhere somehow some reader might think something I wrote was the best they had ever read about the piece’s particular theme or experience.
