(NOTE: I am not getting divorced.  Not even close.  Calm down, Mom.)

However, if I do ever get divorced (I’m not ever getting divorced) my wife and I now have to figure out how to split up my small press that I just brought into existence today and which we are co-owners of.  I’d like to announce the existence of Prostetnic Publications, a small press that exists specifically to publish the work of a certain independent author who all of you are terribly familiar with.

Note, here, that I have always been my own publisher, and that in fact the vast majority of independent authors are their own publishers.  Amazon.com and Smashwords and the like are technically distributors, which is an entirely different thing.  Prostetnic exists mainly to solve the legal conundrum I found myself in over the last week or so, which is that I need a legal entity other than me working under my real name for my money to go to.  As I now have a legal sole proprietorship company with a bank account and everything (I did that today too,) I can now open a business PayPal account, which means that when I start selling my books directly from my website (Oops!  Did I admit that I was doing that?  Yeah, that’s happening soon.) you will be paying Prostetnic and not me.  Only Prostetnic is me, so… yeah.

Sooner or later, I’ll set up a website; for now, prostetnic.com and prostetnicpublications.com both resolve here.

And since Prostetnic is a sole proprietorship and not an LLC, its money is my money, so no corporate taxes.  I think.  Need to double-check on this with Dad.  And maybe an actual law-talker.

In closing, have this video, which runs through my head every time I talk about lawyers.