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Self Publishing is getting more and more appealing
When querying publishers, if you do not have an agent, you need credits. If you published short stories successfully, publishers, who are in a business first and foremost, will see that you, the author are marketable.
If you successfully self publish, same story, one can safely conjecture.
I asked around and looked at a few sites. Writers at a science fiction convention held in my hometown found that Lulu was a good resource, according to the friend that attended the various panels. I really wish now that I was able to go to this convention, but I'm not the best one to start a conversation. How many authors get questions on how to start in the business from newbies?
It looks like I may try to go the route of self publishing one book to hopefully get another picked up by an independent, or even continue self publishing if I'm good at it.
May try. Like many, I can't help but harbor doubt in my writing, and ability to successfully promote. Then again, the whole deal sounds too good to be true, too easy.
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| Lisa, I think that you've said aloud what is going through many minds. --Robert Barlow |
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| yeah, i agree. it took me years of writing and sending out stuff to have a breakthrough in magazines, but finally have gotten several pieces published. Not looking forward to an even longer uphill battle with my books! I have a couple of young adult books I'm going to go the self-pub route with but I have one children's book I'm working on that I think will have mass appeal and I'm sending that out the traditional way. I'm impatient so I know it will be hard to wait months to hear back from the publishers, and receive so many rejections, but it would be worth it if one said yes...hopefully. I wish you luck. |
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| You got a point there-you mentioned teaching a business course? |
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Going the self-publishing route, as I commented in your other blog, requires a LOT of self-promotion. It doesn't matter whether you choose Lulu.com, or actually get the printing done yourself. If you can't promote your work, you won't get anywhere.
That said, if you do succeed in promoting your book, regular publishers will be interested, but only if you can show a substantial amount of success, like a couple of thousand sales.
It's not a matter of the work looking unprofessional: professional is just an impression, but NOBODY argues with success. Get the success, either through regular publishing (mags and so on) or through self-publishing, and you become someone who can be sold to the publisher's market. |
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I failed a year of algebra...ugh.
Way I see it, I pay a distribution fee that publishers would take care of, but it adds up in royalty fees. Financially, I can see it, but I've borwsed Lulu among other places and there's some good and some bad. My fear is that I don't looks as professional as other self publishers or that I'm in hack country, etc. etc. |
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