All around, the house is
dwarfed by bigger houses that look directly onto the tiny compound, raising questions about the safety and security of the people who will man this delicate office.
And as more and more indie authors are picked up
by big houses based, not on queries and submissions and the traditional system, but on established sales records, it could be a viable alternative to a frustrating and, at times, broken system.
I am in a quandary; as a self - published indie writer, like many of us
denied by Big House publishers who do not want to take chances, I am in search of reviewers.
You can also self - publish with either the hope of making a success outright or, like a startup venture, the hope of doing well enough to be
noticed by a big house and picked up.
I researched the industry, my market, successful books, marketing strategies
implemented by big houses and authors, and tried to dissect it all.
Despite all the excitement about self - publishing these days — and I'm a big proponent — many writers still dream of being published
by a big house like St. Martin's Press or a prestigious literary publisher like Algonquin or Bloomsbury.
True, some self - published books do climb the bestseller lists because of the low price; several self - pubbed authors have been snatched up
by the big houses.
We're not selling our ebooks to libraries right now, particularly if we are being published
by the big houses.
They are either traditionally pubbed authors who turned Indie or they are Indie authors who were picked up
by a big house.
Could that book ever be picked up
by a big house and published for general sale by them, or once in print would it stay that way?
I have a really hard time with self - publishing in the respect that there are a lot of times when a self - published book falls on my desk, or even an independently published book, and honestly, it's one or two edits away from being picked up
by a big house.
As an independently publishing author, you want your book to be positioned along with other titles, published
by the bigger houses, and getting your book on the bookstore shelves can do just that.