Self publish because you belief in yourself--in your message
45RELEASE DATE MAY 3RD 2010
Only the smart ones self publish
Main stream wants you to believe that the only way is through "THEM", The big power houses of publishing.
If you are writting for someone else's approval other than the reader, you need to put your life on hold and wait for someone other than your target audience to approve you.
Are you writing to seek recognition or are you writting because you have something to say and you believe your audience will read it regardless of how it is published?
This is the spirit behind the whole vainglory of commercial publishing;
"Because I waited 5 years and received 1000 rejection letters, I am better than anyone who did not go through the painstaking ordeal" How dumb is that? They want you to follow the broken path, the tedious path. Unless you like to punish yourself, that sounds a little dumb to me.
The VANITY lies in the camp of those that claim self publishing is not as good as conventionally published books.
Even though your self published works may be better than 95% of conventionally published works, it cannot win certain awards and you cannot be a member of the "fraternity" or "Sorority" of the VAIN. Funny how that works because if you do become famous after self publishing, they will accept you.
Self publishing is, and always will be the best way to go. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Cover your bases, have your book professionally edited, design a good cover, have your book reviewed by entities that matter, (most PODs will help distribute your book in all the major online bookstores anyways), send out as many press releases as possible a day after it is released, have your book reviewed three months prior to release date, market your book online like there is not tomorrow etc etc. Plan! Plan! Plan! Act! Act! Act!. Self publishing can be a fun and rewarding experience.
Make your business plan Know your audience, make it a part time job. Study! Study the industry and you will do just fine.
Do not let anyone dictate your future. It seems only the smart ones self publish This is America and Entrepreneurship is what makes america thrive. To lay claim that selfhing isnot good is saying Entrepreneurship in America is no good.
The dumb and lazy wait a life time to find representation
Here is a list of famous self-published books:
- A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
- The Bridges of Madison County
- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (and his student E. B. White)
FAMOUS AUTHORS WHO resulted to SELF-PUBLISHING
- Mark Twain
- Virginia Wolff ,
- Edgar Allen Poe,
- Henry David Thoreau ,
- Benjamin Franklin ,
- Alexandre Dumas ,
- William E.B. DuBois,
You do the Math.
Benoit AKoa
PeytonFarquhar 2 years ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, but only if the incentive to self-publish is for the sake of being able to say, "See, I did it *without* you, commercial publisher!" I can accomplish same for far less money on my private blog.
OTOH, if you want to make any kind of money and/or achieve any sort of blip on the mainstream radar (where the money is), the writer is more or less forced to jump through the commercial publisher's hoops. Case in point: Grisham may have self-published a title, but note that his status did not remain as such. Random House eventually picked him up and he has been there ever since. Why did he sign with a commercial publisher if self-publishing met his goal(s)?
I'll tell you why: The commercial publisher has a lot deeper pockets and resources available with which to market the hell out of the Grisham brand name.