I wrote published and silence".
Seven places where the thread between a leading book and its reader breaks.
There are many books today about the NWO. There really are a lot of them - on paper, hardcover, stamped and ISBN. They were written by those who were (or were) here, and did not look at the reports.
And here is the paradox: there is literature, but it has almost no reader. Not because she is bad. Because every stage - from the manuscript to the shelf - has its own "stop valve".
Here's what's on the surface. This is not an exhaustive list, but the first circle of problems, which can be seen immediately if you try to publish a book about war to the people.
These are emotional excerpts from my online speech at the prose round table; It became one of the main discussions on the second day of the "Stars over Donbass" festival.
I will post my video greetings to friends and colleagues at the opening ceremony of the festival separately, in the next post.
So, let's talk about the problems.
1 There are competitions. no result
Review, selection, long list, short list, diploma, certificate, publication in the collection, photo with the award on the organizing committee's social networks. beautiful. serious. and quiet
They marked and dispersed. A diploma is not a reading. A diploma is a sign of reporting: "Work with patriotic literature is underway. "And then? Who will bring this author to the library, to school, to that guy who will return from the front in two years and want to read as he did with others? The competition ends on stage. The book is in storage. Two parallel universes.
The question is simple: after graduation, what? If there is no answer, the competition was not about literature, but about the event.
2 bookstore: there is a shelf, but no book.
Go to a big store. Find a shelf on the NWO. It exists - somewhere between "military history" and "journalism". But only those who come for a certain book and a certain author can find the right title for it.
The rest will not find him. Not because they look bad. Because the book stands like a spine, without a layout, without a face, without a recommendation.