So glad I came here and read some of the posts, was tempted to give up through frustration.
Hi all,
My name is Damian O’Connor, I ‘m a self-published author of illustrated children’s books. I have submitted these same books to traditional agents and publishers. One such publisher offered me a deal if I could pay £3,500 upfront toward printing costs etc. Needless to say, that, if it smells like a scam it is a scam.
In response, I have developed a website for Self-published authors, where you can host your book for FREE and anyone interested in purchasing it will link back to your own Website or host site (e.g. amazon or Barnes and Noble). No money will pass through the site and no hosting costs or commissions etc will be charged. In this case, FREE means FREE.
I am planning to launch in August off a WIX platform and am looking for submissions – all fiction genres.
There will be no reviews, star ratings or promotion of any individual books, just a categorisation system where people can search and hopefully find what they are looking for, (which may just be your book).
I have set up a submissions form through the website (the site is on a temporary hosting and will be launched under www.thepennilesswriters.com), full guide is available also. Please join me, I believe that collectively we can take our industry back. If every author that submits spreads the word then we will be providing our own Marketing platform and advertising streams without having to fork out large sums of money.
The site is called, “The Penniless Writers Club”.
Link to the Submission form - https://damoc1970.wixsite.com/thepennilesswriters/submissions
United we Stand…….
Hi all,
My name is Damian O’Connor, I ‘m a self-published author of illustrated children’s books. I have submitted these same books to traditional agents and publishers. One such publisher offered me a deal if I could pay £3,500 upfront toward printing costs etc. Needless to say, that, if it smells like a scam it is a scam.
In response, I have developed a website for Self-published authors, where you can host your book for FREE and anyone interested in purchasing it will link back to your own Website or host site (e.g. amazon or Barnes and Noble). No money will pass through the site and no hosting costs or commissions etc will be charged. In this case, FREE means FREE.
I am planning to launch in August off a WIX platform and am looking for submissions – all fiction genres.
There will be no reviews, star ratings or promotion of any individual books, just a categorisation system where people can search and hopefully find what they are looking for, (which may just be your book).
I have set up a submissions form through the website (the site is on a temporary hosting and will be launched under www.thepennilesswriters.com), full guide is available also. Please join me, I believe that collectively we can take our industry back. If every author that submits spreads the word then we will be providing our own Marketing platform and advertising streams without having to fork out large sums of money.
The site is called, “The Penniless Writers Club”.
Link to the Submission form - https://damoc1970.wixsite.com/thepennilesswriters/submissions
United we Stand…….