I had been considering e-publishing, and my querying wasn't going so well, so I began following Konrath's blog and learning all I could. When I sent my last batch of queries out, and realized after I sent them, that I almost hoped they'd all be rejections, I decided that I was ready to epublish. It wasn't just about control, it was finding out that many published books only stay on the shelves for a few months before being pulled if they aren't huge sellers right off the bat. It was a depressing fact. If that's the case, I'd rather keep control and try marketing my book on my own.
Without Konrath's blog though, I'm not sure I would have done it yet. I might have waited until fall.
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I don't want my life to stop because and agent isn't "swept away" by the first page of my novel. And, increasingly, that's what an author is judged by these days, just a page.
Admittedly some writers aren't signed because they're not very good. But some are quite good but still don't fall into the parameters of the business model.
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Exactly! I put my first page up on WeBook's Page to Fame Back in April. It was just now rated by an agent. (anonymously) Said that 'the writing was good, but that opening with a dead baby would turn off readers and publishers.' Only problem is that if he'd been able to read more, he'd have learned I didn't open with a dead baby. Just a baby in peril. Big difference.