[bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:17:05 -0700
& I just wanna say here that I'm excited (no, ecstatic) to announce
that Nan has graciously agreed to come to our writers group on July
19th to address this & any other questions aspiring writers might
have, so my advice is mark your calendars now & plan to attend her
stellar presentation & Q&A!
On 6/25/08, Nan Hawthorne <hathorn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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