For those of you who read to review, or read to enjoy the drama of
making the 'right' choice about self, partner, or regular publishing my seem
moot since either way you get to read what's out there. For writers who
long to be published, like me, once the all too often regaled publishers one
thought would read and love their work, nixed it without a second thought, the
plethora of options can be daunting...more so now because people are buying
less of almost everything, and reading - that armchair spot of yesteryear -
isn’t as entertaining to the newbies as is was to the you's and me's.
Given the reality that most new authors books won't have a press
release blitz before they are published unless the author does that for their
book, and the staggering number of good to great books that go unnoticed every
year, one wonders where to publish and what form their book should be published
in. And that's where we're going, so hop on if you'd like, and tell me
what you think after you've read this post.
Since I became an author before Amazon's Create Space or Kindle
were widely touted, as in, I'd never heard of them, and because 24 months after
my first book was published, some well-known authors with longstanding
relationships with their publisher were voiding contracts so they could
self-publish, I'll start with Amazon's Dynamic Duo!
Of course, any one checking both Create Space and Kindle out would
know that these two entities, though affiliated with Amazon, aren't Amazon. I
mention this because it's important no matter who you publish with whether it
be hardcover, paperback, Kindle, or a company like Smashwords who publishes in
many e-book and other non-paper formats whom, figuratively speaking of you're jumping in bed with!
I, being an author because Messiah commissioned me, wanted to have
my faith stories published in paperback. After a few years of hoping the
publisher who published my book would market it, I became an Indie
Author. I now handle the PR and decided to publish my book on Kindle. Urged by
the dear that formatted my e-book for Smashwords, I did that as well and
discovered that doing as she suggested meant that my book could appear on more
than 50 online booksellers as well as some lending and other libraries.
With the publication of “Beginning Anew: The Naomi Chronicles,
Book One,” I was a happy camper. Publishing was a breeze and I loved being able
to market both my paperback and e-book as well as lower the e-book price so
readers would check this book out.
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