Paul - if you don't get a publisher, you can go the LULU route. but all my fingers and toes are crossed for you (thats why my typing is so bad :) :)
ann Paul Stenquist wrote: > Yes, it's very difficult to get published. Approximately one out of > fifty is published, and only about 10% of those could be deemed > successful. I've been well aware of that from the start. But I'm a > writer by trade, and I've worked in almost every other format, so a > novel was inevitable. First person novels are particularly tough > sells, so I have a long way to go. But I'm pleased to have gotten > this far. > Paul > On Oct 21, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Bob W wrote: > > >> > >> I don't know a lot about it, but I think getting a book > >> published when one is > >> not an already established fiction writer is very tough. I > >> have read though, > >> that persistence is the key. No matter how many rejection > >> slips you get, keep > >> sending it off again and again and again. > >> > >> Nothing will take away your sense of accomplishment, though. > >> > >> Good luck! > >> > > > > Not wishing to discourage Paul (or anybody else) because my hat is off > > to anyone who even finishes the first draft, but even when you've been > > published there's still no guarantee of sales. Several of my friends > > are published authors, but their books tend to end up in £1- book > > shops as publishers' remainders before being pulped for toilet paper. > > One friend buys all the £1- copies of his books so that when he's a > > Nobel laureate and finally has a readership in more than double > > figures he can make a killing by selling them at a profit. > > > > Bob > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
