To self-publish or not? It’s a question every writer faces these days, and it’s a hard one to answer. Like the American West in the heady days of the great land rush, there’s promise, great promise. It’s just that there are so many organizations promising so much that it’s hard to sort the wheat from the … let’s be polite … chaff.
If you write and you’re like me (which is to say, a writer with a book often cited as, ‘Wow! Really good.’ and thirty or so rejections from agents), you’re going to have to answer that question.
I’ve mentioned several books I like on writing. Here’s one I really like on self-publishing: The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, by Mark Levine. It’s a nuts-and-bolts guide to the practical issues you will need to deal with if you self publish.
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Author: John Rogers
I have thought of myself as a writer for most of my adult life. In 2011, I became a fiction writer full time. I studied creative writing as an English major in college. Then came family and career. I worked in finance and biotech and did a wonderful stint in Vienna. Now, I have the opportunity to use those experiences as the substrate for my stories. My first novel takes on the world of Big Data and the very timely issue of cyber war. The second uses the manipulation of financial derivatives as impetus for attempted murder during a trip from Vienna to Budapest on the Danube.
I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis. I am finding writers’ groups to be very helpful as concept editors, as well as practical advice from the published authors. I am in three such groups. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis.
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To self-publish or not? It’s a question every writer faces these days, and it’s a hard one to answer. Like the American West in the heady days of the great land rush, there’s promise, great promise. It’s just that there are so many organizations promising so much that it’s hard to sort the wheat from the … let’s be polite … chaff.
The November 2013 issue of Poets and Writers Magazine was devoted to the issue of self-publication. It had several articles including a roundtable with an agent and a couple of successful self-publishers. It didn’t seem that there was much in the way of “how to” information, but it did give some perspectives.
Thanks, Tim. That was a good article. Poets & Writers, being a .org, is a little less interested in jamming products that Writers Digest, too.