ROW80 and Insecure Writer's Support Group Day: Traditional Publishing
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Thanks again to illustrator Magali Studer for the drop cap!
Today is Insecure Writer's Support Group Day!
The optional question for this month is: What publishing path are you considering/did you take, and why?
I've always considered traditional publishing, because I grew up in the era when self-publishing meant a fanzine photocopied at your parent's office or a book you'd had printed through an author-gouging vanity publisher.
The landscape has changed enormously since then! I think self-publishing is an amazing option nowadays, for those who wish to control the entire process, and are able to employ the right editors, designers, copy editors, and so on that can help them get the book finalized. Self-published or traditionally published, there's nothing like the formal editing process for making a manuscript shine.
I've been thinking all year of self-publishing a mini anthology of five of my short stories, but haven't been able to devote time to the project yet.
Otherwise, I've been traditionally published through Carina Press!
It was a great experience and I hope to repeat it.
Thank you to this month's IWSG Day co-hosts: Toi Thomas, T. Powell Coltrin, M.J. Fifield, and Tara Tyler!
We're now in week 10 of round 3 of A Round of Words in 80 Days for this year. I've forgotten all my other goals, as I've been concentrating on this new novella, Summer Blaze, which is nearly at 20,000 words! Hoping for a major round of edits tomorrow, as it's a public holiday (thanksgiving/jeune Genevois).
I've also been writing, sporadically, scenes for another story altogether, which features one of my characters falling in love with another author's character. I'll try to share a snip soon!
There are lots of related images for these scenes, and for the novella, on my Story Inspirations board on Pinterest:
Have you explored self-publishing?
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Thanks for sharing your publishing path. Glad trad publishing has worked out well for you. I wish you all the best with any future self-pub endeavors.
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Happy your publisher is working out for you! I'm going for traditional as well. Still working on trying to get an agent after all these years... I may start querying the publisher directly next.