[bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
- From: Nan Hawthorne <hathorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:57:53 -0700
Chris,
I can answer your questions, but maybe not quite as you intended.
How do I maintain the discipline to focus on one project at a time..
actually this has not come up as I have had so much emotion wrapped up
in An Involuntary King that though I had more ideas floating about they
patiently waited for the "heart's work" to be done. I suppose my own
question would be, does it matter? Can you work on more than one at a
time? If not, I guess willpower will be required.
Second question about getting something to the top of a publisher's
pile. One answer might be getting a good agent. That's not how I
went. I am a board member of the Independent Author's Guild
www.independentauthorsguild.org - we are authors who intentionally
publish through small press publishers and publish on demand companies.
Since corporate publishing is leveraged to their eyeballs these days
they are risk adverse.. and it is well nigh impossible to get their
motive. As a result tons of well written and particularly genre fiction
just does not get published. I knew An Involuntary King hadn't chance,
no matter the quality, because Saxon era fiction is represented by
Bernard Cornwell and no one else.. the publishers are adamant that no
one reads it. Since I will read anything written about that era I can
get my ears on, I know that's not true. So I chose to set up my own
press and use a POD. The stigma of "self-publishing" is no longer
valid. There is indie music recording, indie film making, and indie
software development. Why do we assume indie book publishing will
result in crap? I will rely on my readers to make that judgment. And
now that more than half of books sold are sold online it is no disadvantage.
Hope that helps.
Nan Hawthorne
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