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I was published by Pinnacle, too. It was a fair deal but like building a house on sand. It's hard to build an audience when your books don't stay available.
Kali, those are solid thoughts--the only point where I would disagree is I think making a working-class income as a fiction writer is a lot more realistic now. True, you do need the skill set, but major publishers expect the authors to create and drive the consumer audience anyway, so why not get most of the revenues? The next step is to get your readers to buy directly from you--it's amazing how many fewer sales you need when you are getting 100 percent instead of 50 percent or 25 percent (which most Big Six are paying) or the 6 to 8 percent you make on a paperback royalty.
Scott
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