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Dec 26, 07 - 4:45 PM |
A better plan...
Over the past couple days I've spent too much time researching self publishing, ebooks, the markets, reading many many entries from writing and publishing blogs and forums, considering what to do when I'm done with the podcast version. This is where the naive writer rushes out and spends too much money for a misspelled and embarrassing artifact of his stupidity. Um, no. Though I have the editing and proofreading chops, only an idiot would do this part his or herself. Yes, I've edited myself for years, but that's poetry, not fiction. Good objective proofreading and editing is a must. Once past that part of the process, do I even want to print? Practically, no. I'm not about to turn my little indie imprint that I use to sell poetry chapbooks into a full service publishing company, for an unknown novel. POD services ultimately deliver paperbacks for $25 and lousy royalties, and vanity presses result in a much deeper financial hole and crates and crates of books. In fact, I'm not interested in creating a dead-tree book at all until/unless I can snag an agent or a book deal. And how often does that happen with a first novel? No thanks, I'm a writer, not a publisher. Don't get me wrong, self publishing has worked for a number of African American writers over the past 5 to 6 years, primarily those writing inspirational, self-help, street lit or hard edged urban soap operas. All healthy commercial genres, but not the markets my novel is geared to - "Banjo Strings" is a heady mix of Horror, SciFi, Erotica and Southern Gothic, healthy genres themselves, and competitive, so my being a "Black writer" would have as little advantage as being a self publisher. Ok, it's been shown that a book freely available online has a positive effect on exposure and eventual sales by previously unknown authors... So making a few chapters, or even the entire story, available as a free ebook is no different than my podcast novel version. It becomes an additional marketing tool with audience numbers to go along with the podcast stats. I expect to have a presentable manuscript ready by summer, with a better idea then of next steps, but so far, the plan is to finish the podcast version, then make a larger excerpt or the entire edited manuscript into a free ebook. Maybe it'll get an agent's attention... One question I haven't seen a definitive answer to: Is a free ebook self published? Does it attract, or repel agents and/or editors? Ok, I'll check this stuff later, I gotta get back to work. |
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