Troikanary

There was a joke I heard some trad publishers make when I was in university about how every year another radical author cooperative appears to disrupt the publishing world. Then they decide one of them should do the admin. And another should deal with the printing. And another will do the marketing. And then they've become another publisher. I am that joke. Melsonia's great strength and weakness is my inability to do what I'm told. We'll always be "cool" but never rich. Probably punching above our weight in terms of notoriety. Our authors do ok-ish, nothing wild though. We can't make a star out of anyone. We're a very creative-first kinda place and that's great but doesn't make for a powerful business. Most of those things people consider "indie" on reddit and whatnot are just the tip of the tentacle of a pointy beaked business somewhere. Think of creative-first as the hood of the squid, instead. Tentacles are expendable, disposable, exploratory, ready to grab and consume at the…