tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post6445363249970465339..comments2023-09-22T18:24:22.356+01:00Comments on Lexi Revellian: Indie authors are the cool kids nowLexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-1690015218572648262014-03-23T12:07:17.796+00:002014-03-23T12:07:17.796+00:00Iain, your visits to my humble blog are welcome at...Iain, your visits to my humble blog are welcome at any time :o)<br /><br />Have I not yet covered this? I've been blogging so many years now I'm forgetting what I've written.<br /><br />You say, "All that BP wants to know is: <i>Is there money in it?</i> How true. These days I feel free to slag off BP as much as I like, confident in the knowledge that should I ever write a truly mammoth bestseller and fancy a trad pub partner, all will be forgiven by those cynical and avaricious bastards.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-82182732960962250452014-03-23T11:33:08.584+00:002014-03-23T11:33:08.584+00:00Sorry, ma'am, late again. I'll go and stan...Sorry, ma'am, late again. I'll go and stand in the corner.<br /><br />First rights... In the days when I used to visit wannabe-writer websites (which I would advise wannabes to avoid), it kept coming up. I never understood it.<br /><br />If you self-publish, the rights to your book are <i>yours</i> to do with what you will. Sell them to a big publisher, for example. All that the BP wants to know is: <i>Is there money in it?</i><br /><br />Might I suggest a blog post on this very topic? More interesting than it sounds, it covers a whole wilderness of misconceptions. I'd be especially interested to see if anyone would take issue with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-2735684616666246422014-03-18T11:53:31.402+00:002014-03-18T11:53:31.402+00:00Thank you, Michele - and I see you got through too...Thank you, Michele - and I see you got through too! Woop woop!<br /><br />I'd put ABNA out of my mind till your comment and it took me five minutes to find the list :o)Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-4828780054853066222014-03-18T11:33:34.005+00:002014-03-18T11:33:34.005+00:00hey saw you made 2nd round of ABNA!! congrats. hey saw you made 2nd round of ABNA!! congrats. Michele 42https://www.blogger.com/profile/04764217419431119768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-63839159512476176192014-03-16T10:32:38.086+00:002014-03-16T10:32:38.086+00:00Joe Konrath thinks Big Publishing is doomed. I'...Joe Konrath thinks Big Publishing is doomed. I'm not so sure. It'll be interesting watching what happens in the next few years.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-5066884058086897582014-03-15T17:38:59.281+00:002014-03-15T17:38:59.281+00:00I saw a post yesterday from an Indian writer sayin...I saw a post yesterday from an Indian writer saying that the Indian publishing industry needed to wake up too.<br /><br />I wonder if the publishing industry could be put forward for the Darwin awards yet? Lumbering towards extinction comes to mind.<br /><br />The Bronte sisters had a few problems getting published too. We all know they had to pretend to be male - or was it just one of them?<br />Anna Favershamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05099360733287877907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-46546688976729732902014-03-15T12:13:26.934+00:002014-03-15T12:13:26.934+00:00Quantum gave me this link: http://www.theromancedi...Quantum gave me this link: http://www.theromancedish.com/, demonstrating that even ostensibly <i>satisfied</i> trad pub authors are leaving the fold.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-55122070829625840732014-03-15T11:29:42.156+00:002014-03-15T11:29:42.156+00:00Lexi, yes. And it's not just self-published/in...Lexi, yes. And it's not just self-published/indie writers talking about publishing; more and more traditionally published writers are coming forward and blogging about their personal experience with traditional publishing--and it's not a pretty story. You have to be truly asleep at the keyboard not to notice and connect the dots. CC Carlquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12654779264419007869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-90600325667050636912014-03-15T08:54:20.563+00:002014-03-15T08:54:20.563+00:00Anna, I've been meaning to blog about Jane Aus...Anna, I've been meaning to blog about Jane Austen's difficulties selling her books.<br /><br />CC, what surprises me is that people are still putting themselves through the submissions process, as if nothing in publishing has changed.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-81623732571497735862014-03-15T00:29:18.387+00:002014-03-15T00:29:18.387+00:00Like.Like.CC Carlquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12654779264419007869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-31317763201673989512014-03-14T23:04:28.067+00:002014-03-14T23:04:28.067+00:00This short history of self-publishing is backed by...This short history of self-publishing is backed by all the facts you have published or linked to in previous posts for which I thank you.<br /><br />I decided to self-publish the day I saw a newspaper article about a number of well known authors' first three chapters were rejected by traditional publishers or their agents. Jane Austen was amongst them. When I realized that the initial readers were not even up to recognizing those whom they should, what was the point of even the best of writers trying to be traditionally published.<br /><br />Anna Favershamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05099360733287877907noreply@blogger.com