Not exact matches
And as a sidebar, I invite you to read Hugh Howey's conceptualization of a
near - parallel, the
agent - as - producer and the author - as - maker of much more than
books: Lil» Kris in da House.
While this is changing — some literary
agents are taking indie authors now, and organizations are cropping up to give self - published
books physical retail opportunities — it's still darn
near impossible to get an independently published
book into bookstores.
When you self - publish, you learn to write to market, you learn about blurbs and pitches and hooks and all sorts of neat marketing stuff, and at first, I thought that if my
books «didn't make it», it would be a disaster, that I too (because of them) would never make it as a writer, that no
agent or publisher would ever want to get
near me.
The further away you
book (say Mataram, the Gili Islands, or Bali) the more likely you're dealing with an
agent who in all likelihood has never been
near Rinjani before and you'll have very limited recourse when you discover you're not getting what you paid for.
Hopefully, once you have read a few posts and looked at a few pictures, you'll want to run to the
nearest travel
agent and
book a trip.