I just read Uncle Jim’s essay on PublishAmerica (actually it was a rebuttle to an authors letter. Sorry, I can't find the link now.) I so badly wanted to post a positive response but there is none.
Yes, my second novel was published by PA and I’m suffering all the pains of that decision. My novel “Auspicious Dreams” rivals TNT’s “Into the West” and is written well enough to follow in the footsteps of this and other great epic legends. But it contains too many grammatical errors (5 major and 18 minor so far) to even appear to be legitimate.
My question is this: Can this Phoenix rise from the ashes?
Will an agent touch me with a ten foot pole to help get this story to the TV or silver screen?
I contacted PA with a request for help and was told it was entirely up to me.
My first novel was published by a small press with a wonderful niche, I thought at the time, but they went bankrupt and deposited the remainder of the 500 book first print run on my doorstep. (230 books had been sold pre-publication.) Without a publishing company I can’t get the remainder of the books to Ingram and without a book catalogue book buyers don’t know I’m alive. I spent from 1999 to 2003 with this company to get my first novel in shape. In 2004, just weeks after I was published, the press died. Since then I've given away more than 50 copies for promotion and sold 50 more or so on consignment to book, novelty and even wine shops. 75 copies were donated to charities as fund raisers. I still have about 90 left.
Both novels have received excellent reviews, so, for once I’m not being self-effacing but honest about my work. My novels are good. My resume stinks!
What can I do now? What would you do?
A traumatized author,
Shelia
Yes, my second novel was published by PA and I’m suffering all the pains of that decision. My novel “Auspicious Dreams” rivals TNT’s “Into the West” and is written well enough to follow in the footsteps of this and other great epic legends. But it contains too many grammatical errors (5 major and 18 minor so far) to even appear to be legitimate.
My question is this: Can this Phoenix rise from the ashes?
Will an agent touch me with a ten foot pole to help get this story to the TV or silver screen?
I contacted PA with a request for help and was told it was entirely up to me.
My first novel was published by a small press with a wonderful niche, I thought at the time, but they went bankrupt and deposited the remainder of the 500 book first print run on my doorstep. (230 books had been sold pre-publication.) Without a publishing company I can’t get the remainder of the books to Ingram and without a book catalogue book buyers don’t know I’m alive. I spent from 1999 to 2003 with this company to get my first novel in shape. In 2004, just weeks after I was published, the press died. Since then I've given away more than 50 copies for promotion and sold 50 more or so on consignment to book, novelty and even wine shops. 75 copies were donated to charities as fund raisers. I still have about 90 left.
Both novels have received excellent reviews, so, for once I’m not being self-effacing but honest about my work. My novels are good. My resume stinks!
What can I do now? What would you do?
A traumatized author,
Shelia
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