Having read most of the Beware board and posted a couple of times I found this thread and thought it might be time to introduce.
Over the last two weeks, as I read the Beware board, I started to remember what my thoughts were when I began writing. Working through the PA thread, more and more of the comments about Trad publishing woke memories. Why memories?
Long ago in a different world I got caught in the Deering train wreck, some how I avoided the PA venture, which means I learned something. The effect of the DTW combined with the mirco sales resulting from my experience with a small publisher (not self- publishing, not a fee charging and not PA) did a serious number on my confidence. Blush. I gave up on trying to get Trad and went self-publishing, which was less expensive than the Deerings, but that is about all I can say for it.
My online writing world was composed of boards of happy self-publishers. I understood that my writing was fine it was my pr skills that weren't. Granted. But deep down I had the feeling that something was wrong with the picture.
Fortune arrived in a strange way. My hard drive failed and took my favorites with it. In the computerless weeks, I came to one decision - I will write for cash period.
Then when I was rebuilding my favorites I found this board. As I read I found that James, Victoria and others where saying the things that I had believed about publishing and self-publishing and been told on the other boards was out of date and simply not true.
After reading many posts I found the enshrined words of James: Money flows toward the author. *triumphant music here* and I knew that the true believer (me) had come home.
As well as working on my self-confidence, which took a huge blow from not being a pr person until I realized I didn't want to be a pr person, I am working on getting an agent.
Oh, yes, I find that when I finish a mss I have an extra step and that is to go back and remove about 10K of unneeded words. I can and have done this. Messages will get shorter.
Over the last two weeks, as I read the Beware board, I started to remember what my thoughts were when I began writing. Working through the PA thread, more and more of the comments about Trad publishing woke memories. Why memories?
Long ago in a different world I got caught in the Deering train wreck, some how I avoided the PA venture, which means I learned something. The effect of the DTW combined with the mirco sales resulting from my experience with a small publisher (not self- publishing, not a fee charging and not PA) did a serious number on my confidence. Blush. I gave up on trying to get Trad and went self-publishing, which was less expensive than the Deerings, but that is about all I can say for it.
My online writing world was composed of boards of happy self-publishers. I understood that my writing was fine it was my pr skills that weren't. Granted. But deep down I had the feeling that something was wrong with the picture.
Fortune arrived in a strange way. My hard drive failed and took my favorites with it. In the computerless weeks, I came to one decision - I will write for cash period.
Then when I was rebuilding my favorites I found this board. As I read I found that James, Victoria and others where saying the things that I had believed about publishing and self-publishing and been told on the other boards was out of date and simply not true.
After reading many posts I found the enshrined words of James: Money flows toward the author. *triumphant music here* and I knew that the true believer (me) had come home.
As well as working on my self-confidence, which took a huge blow from not being a pr person until I realized I didn't want to be a pr person, I am working on getting an agent.
Oh, yes, I find that when I finish a mss I have an extra step and that is to go back and remove about 10K of unneeded words. I can and have done this. Messages will get shorter.
