Well, being on another planet, you may never see this, but I distinctly remember Nada seeing you out sunning yourself by the pool. Are you a lizard yet?
Terrible what you did to CC.
Hubbyspeaks, appropriate. As is Nada having her arm up your ass.
Hey, Hubbyspeaks, I KNEW there was a good reason we hadn't seen you around. It does my soul good to see that me an' Tor aren't alone in the world. Hey, we feel sorta like Custer at the Little Big Horn, "Where'd they all come from!!!"
But you better be careful; the yeller dude will come after ya with his sword (flashlight).
LOL LOL LOL!!! CC, consider your sorry butt SPANKED(much like you did the monkey, btw).
Hubby, dude, it's good of you to stop by and even better of you to travel all the way from Xybercram1673 to lend your somewhat dry voice of reason into this mess CC has once again started.
Hey...speaking of real estate...you think you could keep your eye out for a little fixer-upper sitting on maybe five acres (or a moon, whichever) I been looking for more room for all my animals!
At this point, I would honestly not be interested in mainstream publishing, after everything I've read about it. I want my rights to my work and I don't want to make 10 cents per sale while the company makes $4-5 a sale. (Agreeing with Mavis.) I can buy and sell my own books and make $4-5 a book if I sell it at the listing price.
Just a tip: even traditionally published authors are expected to promote themselves. The companies do very little promotion for new authors. If that's what you're counting on, you're likely to be disappointed.
I'm a writer. I'm a very serious writer, and I don't want my work unread simply because it doesn't fulfill a niche. It is not an easy route, but I believe in my work enough to make the effort.
Hubbyspeaks, without a doubt the most preferred thing is to have a publishing house select your book to be published, distributed, and marketed. However, the day when it was that or nothing is gone. The new mantra seems to be "Why not do both?"
Technology has come to the point where each person can reproduce a professional quality product in their own homeoffice. The purpose of producing that product should be the deciding factor as to whether to self-publish or traditionally publish. If your desire is to reach the masses, the publishing houses are geared to do that. If your goal is to reach your friends and aquaintances, then it may be simpler to do it yourself.
However, it is good to see your name in a publication that is read by many. But perhaps that is just food for our egos.
Great to have you commenting in here. Careful, this stuff is adictive.
Oooh, just one more point, I forgot to mention. When you sell a self-published book, the author gets some money, yes it's true - some real money. When a main-stream book is sold, the suthor gets a tiny token for their work, say a few cents or pence per copy. This has made self publishing very attractive, eveb for well established writers, who are fed up with being ripped off by publishers.
Well, I nearly said the times they are a changing, but I remember that many literary greats self published and in much more difficult circumstances than we have today.
Shelley, Austen, Byron etc... all self-published at some point in their careers.
I self published a book of short stories because there is a prejudice against short stories in Britain. I don't write the sort of stuff magazines would be interested in, we do not have the plethora of literary mags that you have in the US. Here magazines want romances starring Brett and Brenda and nothing else.
There is a new technology, print on demand, which makes it possible for anyone to publish their work. Of course this means that there will be a lot of rubbish out there and it is a gamble to buy self-published work. But I have read some truly horrendous commercially published work, well, not read all the way through, you understand. So commercial publishing is no guarantee of quality.
I am now looking for an agent for my full-length book. I will not self-publish it because I think it is so much easier to sell commercially published books. A mainstrem publisher has a huge marketing machine and this means that your book has a chance of major sales. My self published book has sold very modestly, but enough to make it worth-while. It is now listed on Amazon and the sales are beginning to build. Maybe an agent or main-stream publisher will read my self-published book and be prepared to give it (or future works) a chance.
I think print on demand has changed the face of self-publishing because you do not need to buy hundreds and store them in the garage. I also think that for certain, minority market works, it is the only route.
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