My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

Joseph:

Why did you self publish?

I am sure you could have gotten a publisher if you tried.

Thanks -- I wanted to be completely independent with this book. Hightower Press is
my own company. Self-publishing has become more of a viable option in this
age of electronic typesetting and print-on-demand. Once Amazon started
distributing self-published books, it was a major change.

I self-published my first book in 1968, but the distribution options were very limited
back in those days. Some books are right for major commercial publishers and university presses, and I've
worked with many in this country and abroad. Vintage Books published
my WRITING IN PICTURES: SCREENWRITING MADE (MOSTLY) PAINLESS in 2012. My 1982 Howard Hawks
interview book, HAWKS ON HAWKS, is coming back into print
this fall from the University Press of Kentucky. My STEVEN SPIELBERG:
A BIOGRAPHY came out in a new third edition last fall from Faber
and Faber in England, and the book was also published recently
for the first time in mainland China. But some books are suited
for the self-publishing route and can do well in that way. I would
recommend it to others in our field.