It has been a pleasure to search and communicate with various agents and publishing houses who, after reading a three page synopsis, have decided that my writing isn't worth their time. Having read many of these letters in the course of my research into writer-agent/publisher communications, there is no way a great book can be found. They all sound like the last story of that genre. SO, I have looked into self-publishing and now understand why it is taking off like crazy with authors and readers alike.
1. Books are much cheaper to produce.
2. Books are much cheaper to purchase.
3. Authors make more money.
4. Readers save more money.
5. With companies like Smashwords, I can do all the work and set up the book on line thru their service, have it go to a bazzilion outlets thru their distribution list, all for $0. If I purchase an ISBN from them for a nominal fee, my book also goes to two or three more monster sales points.
6. What have I got to lose? A few hours reformatting (Which they give me complete instructions to do) and a few Kilobytes of upload.
7. I can even do my own cover. (see previous post)
PS: a friend of mine is doing the same thing thru another outfit and spending $7,000. The only difference is she will be able to get paper copies when she is willing to pay for them. Pub on demand added in other words.
Being extremely cheap, $0 is much better than $7000 spent to find out if my books have a market. If they do pub on demand is still an option. How about researching truly self publishing and binding, as in do-it-at-home.
Time to go write.
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