Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

Larry Niven
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When we feel like we can’t make it through a day, or we can’t stand another moment of pain and suffering, we sometimes reach out and grab as many plastic bags as we can find. But once those bags are full, what do we do with them? We throw them away, drop them in the trash, or just leave them to molder away in a box somewhere. The problem is that there are a lot of books out there that need to be read. Maybe you have a great book that you really want to share with the world, but you just can’t seem to get it published.

Or maybe you have a book that you really wanted to publish but didn’t think anyone would buy it. In either case, I suggest you follow this simple piece of advice from the great H. Jackson Brown: “Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it.

Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

The only way they will ever see sunlight is by being slowly released into the world until they are greatly appreciated.”

Source: Lucifers Hammer

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