Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Yeah, well, considering my own snarly little rant in livejournal this morning, this is some damned good timing.
Publishing can blow me.
We laughed more about the books we *didn't* publish, though. But when you're trying to describe one more romance about a noble Scotsman with perfect hair and teeth, and his virginal but truly spunky bride, it's hard not to.
Well, yeah. I read that one. A few times!
I'm beginning to fall seriously in like with the idea of saving myself some grief, and just self-pubbing future books.
I wonder if I could pull that off?
I said this in LJ, too, Deb, but self-publishing is a long, hard road with very few rest stops or road maps. Getting the book into stores, making readers aware that the books exist in the first place -- from what I've heard it takes a lot of writer-hours, and usually a bit of money to do it right.
No, not that kind of self-publishing; more like POD. After all, I'm not a newbie; eight novels over, what, 18 years?
At least that way, I'd have some control over it. These days, I feel I'm at the mercy of an industry I've lost almost all my respect for.
Is POD the same as e-books? I've seen several folks mention they're being published by online publishers.
POD is print on demand.
Print on Demand I know, but I was wondering about the distribution mechanism. How do people know it's there to be printed?
I actually don't know the answer to that. I assume it's the author's responsibility to promote it, either over the web or in ads or whatever.
I assume it's the author's responsibility to promote it, either over the web or in ads or whatever.
Which is precisely what I'm doing anyway, except instead of keeping whatever profit there might ever be from all that work, I'm getting a small royalty and SMP keeps the rest.
Yes, I'm feeling a bit jaded with publishing. But that's not new. And no, I'm not going to stop everything mid-process and devote myself to PODing the Kinkaids or anything else, not just yet.
But I like having the choice. Right now, I feel I have none. And I am insistent on having choices.