The young adult publishing space is saturated
by traditional publishing houses with a huge budget, who can make really awesome websites and things to get traffic.
It is increasingly the option of choice for all writers
as traditional publishing houses get more and more frozen into only taking on well - known authors and risk - free content.
Without the mechanism of a
large traditional publishing house or public relations firm, self - published authors are responsible for effectively marketing their books on their own.
Traditional publishing houses know the game; they specialize in the details — cover design, format, distribution channels, marketing platform, social media strategy, etc..
It can even be a challenge for
traditional publishing houses who have the expertise, staffing, budgets, and connections to make significant volumes of retail book sales possible.
But if I've offered to represent someone, it's because I think they have real commercial value so we will always
try traditional publishing houses first and go from there.
Traditional publishing houses also take responsibility for editing, designing and producing books, and the larger houses have powerful marketing departments to garner traditional media attention.
But
since traditional publishing houses have been slow to jump on the short story bandwagon, you may want to self - publish your short story collection to get your work out there now.
Their annual award contest is open to all authors, and each year they receive submissions from indie authors, small publishers, and big
name traditional publishing houses.