Not exact matches
I
talked to plenty of self -
pub authors with them.
All this
talk reminds me just how important to a self -
pubbed author their own support community is.
I went to an
author talk by a trad
pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.
I am confident that the books that you publish yourself will be of the highest quality, unfortunately that hasn't always been my experience... and I'm not
talking newbie self - published
authors either, but NY
pubbed authors.
I'm just saying that from my perspective of
talking to
authors all over the country, there are far more disenchanted self
pubbed writers than happy.
Boo hoo, all the
authors (trad
pub) interviewed vilifying Amazon,
talking about how Amazon is so big, mean, terrible, stealing money and food and possibly even sex from them.
it's funny, because every time I read indie
authors talking about self
pubbing, it sounds exciting and I start thinking — why not?
I started writing again in 2013,
talked to
authors that had just sold works but wouldn't see them on bookshelves until 2016/2017, and learned about the self -
pub explosion (I'm always late to the party).
I am not
talking about all self -
pubbed authors, I am
talking about the ones who go out and do the work and make it a quality product.
I was just
talking with an
author this weekend who's been with both small & large publishers, and she said the small publisher actually did a far more thorough job w / editing that big
pub imprint.
Also, it makes me curious as to whether or not these foreign
pubs treat all
authors this way or if it is simply because Hugh Howey is someone the entire
pub world is
talking about.
Then indie
pubbed people
talk about how traditional
authors are letting themselves get totally screwed, they refer to Big Publishing like they're evil overlords, and they
talk about how so many horrible books get published traditionally every day.