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I have some fiction writing aspirations, and although my priority at this point is finishing my manuscript(s), during my breaks from writing I’ve been researching publishing options and story marketing. A few forum searches here yielded some very informative posts from members, and this particularly fantastic source of information:
https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/2019-2020-key-book-publishing-paths-by-jane-friedman/
It was through that weblink I came to discover Wattpad. *
My (perhaps overly pessimistic) impression is that trade publishers won’t spend a dime on marketing for debut authors, so I’d need to invest considerable time/effort into building an audience regardless of the publishing avenue I pursue. I believe sharing story excerpts is a great method for doing so – and Wattpad a useful platform for finding & expanding an audience – but I also understand most agents,publishers, and even writing contests won’t accept any previously published material.
Posting an entire novel on a social reading site is one thing, but will story fragments like teaser chapters disqualify the whole body of work as well? Taken to the strictest interpretation, anything posted in the SYW section of this forum may also fall under the same consideration.
Please let me know if teasers posted online for marketing and/or developmental purposes are grounds for rejecting manuscripts, thank you.
*Wattpad seems to be a fairly new, yet quite disruptive force in the industry, and I’m interested in learning more about just how impactful it really is. However, at the same time I don’t want to distract too much from the question which prompted this topic.
https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/2019-2020-key-book-publishing-paths-by-jane-friedman/
It was through that weblink I came to discover Wattpad. *
My (perhaps overly pessimistic) impression is that trade publishers won’t spend a dime on marketing for debut authors, so I’d need to invest considerable time/effort into building an audience regardless of the publishing avenue I pursue. I believe sharing story excerpts is a great method for doing so – and Wattpad a useful platform for finding & expanding an audience – but I also understand most agents,publishers, and even writing contests won’t accept any previously published material.
Posting an entire novel on a social reading site is one thing, but will story fragments like teaser chapters disqualify the whole body of work as well? Taken to the strictest interpretation, anything posted in the SYW section of this forum may also fall under the same consideration.
Please let me know if teasers posted online for marketing and/or developmental purposes are grounds for rejecting manuscripts, thank you.
*Wattpad seems to be a fairly new, yet quite disruptive force in the industry, and I’m interested in learning more about just how impactful it really is. However, at the same time I don’t want to distract too much from the question which prompted this topic.