Other Flavors of Publishing
Jenna,
I was wandering what your put is on Publishing-on-Demand approach to publishing? I started writing seriously when I was sixty, and that was only last year, therefore, I don't have years to wait for the publishing world to digest me and issue a product. I found, what I would say is, a fair and equitable publisher with Infinity Publishing - a POD.
I find the fact that the author keeps the rights to the book a wonderful relief. I don't want to fight that battle. My publisher doesn't mess with me. He makes his money selling my books - that's it. Well, of course, there is the up-front initial cost, which I though was reasonable ($399).
With the POD approach you are responsible to market the book and get the ball rolling, yourself. I have another question for you in this regard. For the first-time author does the major publishers really delve out that much time and money on your marketing campaign? I see it as the author's responsibility. We all just want to write and to heck with the marketing end, but books don't really sell themselves without a famous author or a controversial topic that in is the news. I see a long road for the novel writer of your average sex, violence and demonic hero as the main character type story.
One final volley - how do see the path for someone like myself, who has a novel published by a lesser house, to be seen by the big names in publishing? My stategy was to have a book finished, published and ready to date. I'm ready to be courted. I have read too much dribble about - your not important enough for the industry to even glace at you, until you're published. Well, duh. It's the chicken or the egg dilemma, no?
Vielen Dank,