Is it acceptable to offer a book that is already self published?
I was always under the impression that if a work was already self published no trade publisher would be interested. Well not unless it had huge sales, ala Fifty Shades of Grey. My first book is doing very well by the standards of an amateur debut. It is selling hundreds not tens of thousands.
Recently though I have run into a couple authors who have gotten agents for books that were self published, and trying to get contracts for them. I am just curious, how do most editors view this?
I was always under the impression that if a work was already self published no trade publisher would be interested. Well not unless it had huge sales, ala Fifty Shades of Grey. My first book is doing very well by the standards of an amateur debut. It is selling hundreds not tens of thousands.
Recently though I have run into a couple authors who have gotten agents for books that were self published, and trying to get contracts for them. I am just curious, how do most editors view this?