getting published

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1. THERE'S A METHOD TO HIS PUNCTUATION

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mdauz's picture

I have been asked to write this article based on material I have posted in forum, those who have read the forum will notice the ‘cut ‘n paste’ bits, but I hope that I have added enough useful bits to make it interesting.

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What does it take, short of divine intervention?

Submitted by JLPenn on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 3:49pm
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Okay, so I wrote a book in the early part of 2009. I am now officially over the euphoric "I wrote a novel" high, and have been smacked squarely in the face by the reality that writing the book is actually the easy part. I send out queries as time permits (I'm also a busy Mom with a part-time other career among other things) but have not been asked for the manuscript yet. It did not take long for me to get a bit antsy and discouraged, so I decided to self-publish while I await my "big break." I published with CreateSpace and have sold 77 copies in the last seven months.

Lexi's picture

"The way British publishing works is you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.”

 

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The economy is awful right now. Unless you’ve been living under that proverbial rock these past months, that much is obvious. If you’ve been following the publishing world lately, the dire state of things is even more apparent. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt put a stop to buying new manuscripts, Borders is cutting jobs, and publishers are having to make more hard choices just to stay afloat. Whether you believe the doomsayers who are predicting the downfall of the publishing industry or not, one thing is clear: the difficult road to traditional publication has become even more difficult.

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