Thread by @ColSanjayPande

1/ #VoICE #SelfPublishing #UnderTheSun I don’t like the tone and tenor of the tweets on recent ‘piracy’ incident by the author of a book written by a veteran. Social Media has been used in a very filthy way and hundreds of veterans with zero understanding of publishing have been

2/ so eloquent in criticising the act, naming and shaming the suspect and painting the author as ‘peedit’ ‘victim’. No Sir. We need to understand publishing field. My book, ‘Under The Sun’ was published on 27 Sep 2022. It is on Amazon and Kindle. I started writing my

3/ ‘self publishing’ journey from Feb 2022 in form of tweets and threads. You will find at least 20 threads that give graphic details of each step of publishing. I shared it real time. I added numerous novel features like printing buyers name on ‘personalised’ copies. Everything

4/ is on Twitter and you just have to search #SelfPublishing or #UnderTheSun I wrote those threads for ALL first time authors. During my journey to publishing I came to know the importance of guarding my work, ensuring no leakages, not sharing word doc with anyone except the

5/ closest guys even within my team, not using e mails, not giving full book for editing to editor, get parts of books prepared by different people, having just two people in the team who knew 100% aspects, making no pdf files etc. I find the placard tweets by the veteran author

6/ very childish and immature. Am I to believe that the author who has risen to high positions has threatened livelihood of 10,000 people for something he is responsible for? What steps did he take to safeguard the contents? What was the team size? Who had complete book on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

7/ Who did the editing? Who did the cover? Who did the ‘typeset’? Who had the final version of the typeset? Who printed the first draft copy for the author to check? Who had the final print ready pdf? How many of these digital versions were in word doc and pdf? Apart from email

8/ what other mediums, like wapp, were used? Who was in the drivers seat throughout the publishing journey? I have at least another 100 questions for the veteran author. What is the point in crying publicly and tweeting endlessly? Placard tweet is silly. My advise to the author

9/ stop whining and first get your act correct. Start writing next book. I will take the veteran-author, a three star retired General through every step required for #SelfPublishing I can give a challenge, adhere to my advise and no one can pirate the book except by photocopy

10/ My heart pains when I see the General holding placards. It should happen to no author. The question is, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The author is. Did he take steps? At that seniority, rank and experience, I will say these are not even elementary mistakes. #SelfPublishing