The Resourceful Rhino

I'm preparing to be a guest lecturer this week in a multi-week seminar, relaying information I've gathered (and mistakes I've made) along my re-animated self-publishing journey. In the spirit of lifting up the community, and in sharing it out to the students, I've reorganized things on the site a bit and dropped the self-publishing pages and these new downloads in a general "Resources" section. I'll be filling this out more in weeks and months to come to make the site useful.

I'm also trying to define just what my role is in this great creative adventure. I've dialed in "curmudgeon" now, and "AI skeptic and naysayer" and "general grumpy rhino" but now's an opportunity to balance those out with "slightly opinionated in a helpful manner" and "experienced with the scars to prove it." As I state in my coursework, self-publishing is not difficult, but it is complex. Lots of moving parts, lots of t's to dot and i's to cross.

Once this guest lecture is under my belt, I'll also be assembled a proper seminar on formatting, something that I stumbled into with my Midwestern-US "put your head down and charge forward" attitude. I don't know that I'm doing it easily, but I'm certainly doing it, and I'm realizing that I might be able to spare others some of the learning bumps that I encountered. As I also point out in the lecture, I'm just as much a lifelong learner as anyone in the class. The day I think I know it all is the day the nice zookeepers come and haul me off. A curious rhino is a happy rhino is a humble rhino.

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