![]() ![]() I’m not going to cover anything about query letters, literary agents, or synopses. However, this article won’t be your best source of information. If you’re reading this and you’re set on following the traditional course, I wish you luck. Turns out, it’s far easier than I ever dreamed. The marketing stuff is what I really didn’t want to worry about and if a publisher isn’t going to do that for me, yet take control of my content and most of the profits generated by my book, what good are they?īeing a self-published author seemed like an impossible mountain to climb, but that day, sitting at that kitchen table, I vowed I’d learn how and make it happen. This came after he’d already explained the vast differences in maintaining creative control and profit margin. When Shawn Coyne revealed that marketing the book is the fiction writer’s responsibility-regardless of the publishing route taken-I felt the earth move under my feet. I clearly remember sitting at my kitchen table, listening to a three-part episode of the Story Grid podcast which explored and compared traditional publishing versus indie. ![]() I decided to go with a traditional publisher, no matter how stiff the odds. It’s not that I didn’t believe her, it’s just that self-publishing seemed so complicated and beyond my skill set. It seemed my dream of being a published author was shattered before I even started. Publishing-as the world had known it-was dying and nearly dead. I listened to Kris give a presentation about the changes in the publishing industry and it devastated me. Shortly before I started my writing career, I took a job with our regional library system and had the good fortune to meet Kristine Kathryn Rusch at a staff training conference. In this four-part class, you'll learn what it takes to turn your passion into a mutli-income stream business. Ready to make money? Check out our new class, How Writers Actually Make Money, available now. Let me tell you about the two pivotal events that radically shifted my perception. I’d start my next book while waiting in pleasant anticipation for someone to buy my previous work and take care of all the technical details involved in publishing it-editing, cover, marketing, book signings, and so on. ![]() Once upon a time, in the days before I started writing, I imagined life as an author would consist of days spent in simple solitude, making up stories and sending off manuscripts to agents and publishers. Things in the publishing industry have changed dramatically over the last decade or so. In our modern world, I believe it is possible to make a living as a novelist- if you go the indie route, maintaining control over your creative work and garnering a much larger chunk of the profits than you’ll get from signing contracts with most major publishing houses. What are your goals for being a published author? Do you want to know how to make money as an author? Or a living? And if you do, how much do you really want it? Because the depth of your desire will determine your path and your success. ![]()
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