Whether you go the traditional publishing
route with a publishing house or the self - publishing / hybrid route, how you get your book noticed and bought becomes your job.
Not exact matches
As someone who — in the last eighteen months — has
published with a big six
house, a small private press, and self - pubbed an ebook, I can tell you there's no easy
route for the writer.
I think that's why so many authors who were previously
published with traditional
houses have gone the self -
publish route.
She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being
published by a big name
house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation
with me, to go the independent
publishing route and be the first to work
with our agency in this capacity.»
From your position it's interesting, because you've already established yourself for many years as an author working
with traditional
houses, your
route to self -
publishing means that you already have a name behind you.
This model seems to make the most sense as I agree
with you: some work is more from the heart and is almost like a purging and may not fit in a traditional model /
route while others are more suited to traditional
publishing houses.
A: After having more than 20 books
published through traditional, commercial
publishing houses, I decided to take the self -
publishing route with my newest project, a picture book titled The Sound in the Basement, about a young boy who tries to overcome his fear of going into the basement alone.
A simplistic description of the long road is that it's the traditional
route where your book has to pass muster
with first an agent and then an editor at a
publishing house.
As a writer who's gone both
routes, I have to say self
publishing is so much more gratifying and lucrative than
publishing with the big
houses.
Even though I worked
with Random
House and all the other major publishers, I often advise my clients «Let's go that self -
publishing route.»
If your goal is to earn money rather than pursue an agent or publication
with a larger
publishing house, self -
publishing e-book versions of your stories might be the
route to take.
Since the percentage of books actually
published with a traditional
publishing house is less than 3 %, that makes it difficult for 97 % of authors to get their work
published unless they go the self -
published route.