I'm not sure this is the right place for this question--mods please move if it isn't, thanks!
Having had an agent last year who couldn't sell my YA sff novel, I have this book lying around. It's the first in a planned trilogy and I want to publish it. However, my current agent isn't too keen to shop it around. He hasn't said that outright, but I got the vibe when we spoke about this book. Probably because it's already been shopped to everybody under the sun.
So I'm curious as to what other people do when they have books their agents don't take on. Have you self-published these? Sold them yourselves, maybe to digital presses? Waited until current book on submission/being published is 'out there' and then tried to sell to shop this novel?
If you've done any of the above, how did it go?
Thanks!
Having had an agent last year who couldn't sell my YA sff novel, I have this book lying around. It's the first in a planned trilogy and I want to publish it. However, my current agent isn't too keen to shop it around. He hasn't said that outright, but I got the vibe when we spoke about this book. Probably because it's already been shopped to everybody under the sun.
So I'm curious as to what other people do when they have books their agents don't take on. Have you self-published these? Sold them yourselves, maybe to digital presses? Waited until current book on submission/being published is 'out there' and then tried to sell to shop this novel?
If you've done any of the above, how did it go?
Thanks!