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Originally Posted by chicki
Joe is the reason I decided to publish directly to Kindle. His blog gave me the courage to step out there after years of rejections, several close-calls and finally snagging a well-known agent. I wanted some of my earlier manuscripts to see the light of day. My current works in progress are going to my agent.
The haters have come out of the woodwork since Joe has so candidly talked about his success, but he's laughing all the way to the bank!
Chicki Brown
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I agree, Chicki, I'm self-publishing my action/thriller as an ebook this fall. I've gotten a lot of help from people working in the publishing industry who've admitted that authors are always getting the short end of the stick if they were to traditionally publish. According to Gary Smailes, the CEO of BubbleCow.co.uk, on one of his blogs, he quoted a litterary agent that admitted that although a book is well-written it may not get accepted because it's not the flavor of the month. There've also been many cases where an author is accepted by an agent and the pre-publication process begins but the publisher doesn't want to invest more than $10000US on it. This small amount can guarantee that the book will not be marketed nor well distributed. And even if the author were to do all the marketing herself, she'd only get 15% fo the sale. With the same efforts as a self-published author, she'd get back much more.
So after reading JA Konrath's blogs, which I've subscribed to, I feel more and more confident about my choice to self-publish my action/thriller this fall. I have a website, a booktrailer (I produced on my own), and I posted the first five chapters--not just to entice fans--but to get the interest of book bloggers and reviewers. So far in 3 weeks I have 5 book bloggers that want to host me on a blog tour, 1 newspaper interviewer, and 2 reviewers (one works for the BBC), who want to review it.
It's time to truck on and take back your lives fellow authors.