I've been frantically reading book articles (just, cause, you know I've got nothing to do). And I was thinking about self-publishing. I can think of several self-published-turned-actual-piblished authors just the top off my head: Christopher Paolini, Nancy Yi Fan (she basically was self-published; she just emailed Harper Collins editors and got a book deal), etc. But one name that has been popping up in the self-publishing world lately is Colleen Houck. Her Tigers Curse trilogy was originally self-published as an ebook on such things like bn.com and Amazon. Then her book got picked up by a publishing company and launched a new imprint, Splinter. So what do you think? Is that fair?
Answer these questions.
- Are you self-published/considering being self-published? Why did you choose to self-publish? Has your journey been easy or hard?
- Are you trying to publish the "traditional" way? Most people say that it is extremely difficult. Have the difficulties ever made you want to self-publish?
- What do you think about people like Nancy Yi Fan and Christopher Paolini who were self-published and then became published? Would you ever buy their books?
Woot! That was long-sorry. Hope everybody had a good weekend!
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