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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 2074
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 12:46 pm: | |
And to all of the people just breaking into this industry, PLEASE go with reputable publishing house, and please get an agent to represent you and handle your relationship with your publisher.
AMEN CALEB! This is what I tell all who come to me for advice. Self publishing may seem like an easy fix to avoid the inevitable rejection notices from agents and editors, but it offers short term gratification at best. While I'm not knocking those who choose to go this route, it seems to me that we are hearing more and more stories where those who offer "pie in the sky" dreams of selling your own books and getting rich quick are for the most part selling pipe ,dreams. Because it appears that the ones making all the money and living the high life are those who have all these writers (some from behind bars as you and others point out) churn out book after book for them which the purveyors of these dreams then turn around and sell to publishers. They then take most(or all) of the money and live lavish lifestlyes while those who have labored many, many hours writing these books get little or nothing! Its a real shame.
This can all be avoided by getting a GOOD agent! |