75,000 + sales and over 700 reviews later I have gotten over that, and wear
the label self published author proudly.
Not exact matches
Being
self -
published, or
published through a
publishing company, isn't the basis of
labeling a person as an
author or not.
So by your argument,
self -
published authors should be the ones
labeled as professionals.
If the
label of vanity has migrated from the minds of
self -
published authors, it still exists as part of the collective psyche of their community.
The term «interest age» will now have to be stated and
labeled on titles from publishers and
self -
published authors alike.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareAs many of you may know, earlier this year Writer's Digest terminated its involvement with Abbott Press, the white -
label self -
publishing imprint created and powered for it by
Author Solutions, Inc..
I question I have, is will this spawn a new breed of editors that will help
self -
published authors get rid of the warning
label and then assist said
author in any future books that come out?
Too often, the
label of «Indie
author» or «
self -
published author» still evokes the unfair stigma of being sub par, unworthy when compared to
authors on the other side of that gilded line of traditional
publishing.
«The downside of all the availability of e-publishing means that anybody with a few words on a page in a document file can become a «
published»
author, so those of us who have really made this our life's work are fighting the
label of «
self -
published author.»
Over on Smart Bitches they were talking about
self publishing, I used the phrase indie
author, someone flipped out on me like a ninja about how I'm «dishonest» for using that
label and then pointed me to this blogpost to back herself up.
As I recently posted in response to the same question elsewhere - The reason why we indie
authors reject the «
self -
published»
label is the same as the reason why African - Americans reject the «N word»
label.
As these sea changes evolve, the «
self -
published»
label will cease to exist in any meaningful way except inasmuch as it means «smart,» and will be replaced a kinder, gentler sense of «indie
author» and «indie publisher» that is embraced by readers, by
authors who previously had chosen traditional
publishing routes, and, of course, by the DIY renegades among us.
«Vanity» Press Goes Digital» in the Wall Street Journal provides a thorough overview of the
self -
publishing options now available to
authors, along with a handful of success stories (which should come with the
label «Results not typical» required in advertising for diet plans).
Walker makes a point familiar to many
self -
publishing authors: despite the fact that
authors must pay their way into both Kirkus» and Publishers Weekly's programs for
self -
published writers, the resulting reviews will
label the work as independent.
My friends — most of whom are NOT
self -
published — were placed in that room that was repeatedly
labeled «the
self -
published authors» room».
I think the problem came when you conflated «
self -
published authors and electronic micro-presses» with what you're
labeling as «freight - class fiction.»
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