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Feb. 9th, 2011 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalFound an interesting article courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar concerning beginning authors self-publishing. The upshot is that an author without a Name might be better off just e-publishing, if they can market themselves well. Otherwise they run the risk of getting a pittance for e-royalties and their publication rights never being released by the Big Publishing House they signed their baby away to.
It's given me a bit to think about. My own professionally published work in SJGame's late and lamented Pyramid Online was sufficiently minor that I can't expect it to give me a foot in the door with any publisher, and I just don't have the ability or the inclination to produce the volume that a mid-list author needs to come up with to make a living these days (or any day really). I think after I polish Triumvirate and finish The Ship I'd be better served just publishing them myself via Smashwords and Lulu.
In other writing news:
1. Need to get back to working on The Summer Intern. I've got one or two filler scenes to stick in before The Plot rears its ugly head.
2. Need to move my nose onto the grindstone and get back to work on re-editing Unexpected Diversions, which is so daunting that I'm only about 10 pages into the 200+ I've got to work on. But it needs to be done. It was my best-seller (such as it was) on Lulu and it's got a decent chance on Smashwords thanks to the Elf Porn mrket.
3. National Novel Editing Month will be soon, which means I need to go over Triumvirate again. Aside from simple grammar and formatting errors it's got at least one major structural problem and a couple of minor ones that need fixing before I can think about publishing it online.
4. The Far Future: Need to work on The Ship. One Of These Days.
haikujaguar concerning beginning authors self-publishing. The upshot is that an author without a Name might be better off just e-publishing, if they can market themselves well. Otherwise they run the risk of getting a pittance for e-royalties and their publication rights never being released by the Big Publishing House they signed their baby away to.It's given me a bit to think about. My own professionally published work in SJGame's late and lamented Pyramid Online was sufficiently minor that I can't expect it to give me a foot in the door with any publisher, and I just don't have the ability or the inclination to produce the volume that a mid-list author needs to come up with to make a living these days (or any day really). I think after I polish Triumvirate and finish The Ship I'd be better served just publishing them myself via Smashwords and Lulu.
In other writing news:
1. Need to get back to working on The Summer Intern. I've got one or two filler scenes to stick in before The Plot rears its ugly head.
2. Need to move my nose onto the grindstone and get back to work on re-editing Unexpected Diversions, which is so daunting that I'm only about 10 pages into the 200+ I've got to work on. But it needs to be done. It was my best-seller (such as it was) on Lulu and it's got a decent chance on Smashwords thanks to the Elf Porn mrket.
3. National Novel Editing Month will be soon, which means I need to go over Triumvirate again. Aside from simple grammar and formatting errors it's got at least one major structural problem and a couple of minor ones that need fixing before I can think about publishing it online.
4. The Far Future: Need to work on The Ship. One Of These Days.
