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Unfortunately for all of us emerging authors, there are many people trying to take advantage of you and profit off of your dreams. Some of them are posing as Independent “Traditional” Publishers (or as agents, as in the post last week). I have known authors that have lost tens of thousands of dollars to a
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Dean Wesley Smith has written several posts over the past week on a very disturbing trend rippling through NY publishing. Authors need to know the truth behind this trend so that they can protect themselves. Basically, agents, like the rest of us, are trying to find ways to professionally survive this huge paradigm shift in
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The term “self-publishing” is quite fuzzy. The boundaries of this choice bleed into both Independent Publishers on one end and Vanity Publishing on the other, thus the quotation marks. For the purposes of my forthcoming book, I’m defining “self-publishing” as a writer who publishes their own book through a publishing company they own, not a
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Thus far in the series, I’ve covered the Four Basic Publishing choices, the NY Big Boys, Literary Agents, and Independent Publishers. Before we go on to Basic Choice #3: “Self Publishing,” let’s recap with a Pro/Con list for the indie publishing avenue. PROS Validity and prestige of being picked up by a publisher A team
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Last post, I pretty much gave you a brief overview and told you things to watch out for in an Independent Publisher. Actually, most of those things from yesterday showed you how to see through a scam. “Publishers” who do those things aren’t traditional publishers. (BTW, if they go out of their way to assert
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If you’ve decided that it’s all just too much or will take too long or is too uncertain to try for a NY Big Boy Publisher, your next choice is a smaller, independent publisher. Now indie publishers can range from large companies with dozens of employees to a “mom&pop” publishing company run by just one
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