@Charles - that's an interesting perspective. Why do you seek "traditional" publishing? Is there a particular goal you have in mind? As I'm sure you're aware - not all "traditionally-published" authors get on the Bestseller list. If it's the extra publishing industry insight or marketing knowledge you seek, have you considered hiring a marketing consultant, book shepherd, or self-publishing company?
Eunice Banks - 13 years ago
Charles, that's a nice dream, but by the time you get there, you won't need it. "Traditional" Publishing is choking on it's own bottom line rules. There is a new way to frame non-traditional publishing. You and I are part of a publishing wave that will, very shortly, achieve the status you desire. Sell your books. Be happy that by self-pulishing you get more more creative freedom, more guidance and support than any so called world class publisher will give you any time soon. World class ,these days,means the internet. Study up and get to work: your future is where it belongs, in your hands not in some bean counters bottom drawer ever again.
(I have not been coached or paid for this comment.) Eunice Banks, author of The Trouble With Tom, in which five gallant old men flout the law.
I have self-published in order to sell a lot of my books on my own then return to those same literary agents who rejected me (I only approached some of the most-respected agents), and show them what I have been able to do without their help and without the help of a professional publisher, and to say to them, "Imagine what would happen if I had your help, your guidance, your support, the support of a world-class publisher." For me, self-publishing is less about independence and more about a strategy for getting myself inside of the traditional publishing world.
@Charles - that's an interesting perspective. Why do you seek "traditional" publishing? Is there a particular goal you have in mind? As I'm sure you're aware - not all "traditionally-published" authors get on the Bestseller list. If it's the extra publishing industry insight or marketing knowledge you seek, have you considered hiring a marketing consultant, book shepherd, or self-publishing company?
Charles, that's a nice dream, but by the time you get there, you won't need it. "Traditional" Publishing is choking on it's own bottom line rules. There is a new way to frame non-traditional publishing. You and I are part of a publishing wave that will, very shortly, achieve the status you desire. Sell your books. Be happy that by self-pulishing you get more more creative freedom, more guidance and support than any so called world class publisher will give you any time soon. World class ,these days,means the internet. Study up and get to work: your future is where it belongs, in your hands not in some bean counters bottom drawer ever again.
(I have not been coached or paid for this comment.) Eunice Banks, author of The Trouble With Tom, in which five gallant old men flout the law.
I have self-published in order to sell a lot of my books on my own then return to those same literary agents who rejected me (I only approached some of the most-respected agents), and show them what I have been able to do without their help and without the help of a professional publisher, and to say to them, "Imagine what would happen if I had your help, your guidance, your support, the support of a world-class publisher." For me, self-publishing is less about independence and more about a strategy for getting myself inside of the traditional publishing world.