http://www.wordpreneur.com/2009/05/5-reasons-to-independently-publish-your-next-book/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.wordpreneur.com/2009/05/5-reasons-to-independently-publish-your-next-book/comment-page-1/#comment-6093 Josephine Bacon Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:52:04 +0000 http://www.wordpreneur.com/?p=2421#comment-6093 While I tend to agree that "stuffed shirts in New York" are astonishingly stupid when it comes to good books to publish, it is still vital to try and get your book published the old-fashioned way as it ads to your street cred. I am an author who has been published and I also self-published. I first published a book myself in 1983, because it was my translation of a rare book and I knew that if I proposed it to a publisher he would either a) say no outright ("it's not our kind of book", "it's not right for us", etc. etc.) or b) would say "thanks for putting us wise to this, now take a hike!" and give the translation to someone else. Some excellent books have been self-published (such as "Becoming a Freelance Translator") have been self-published because publishers are too stupid to see the market for such a book, but I still don't think fiction ought to be self-published. While I tend to agree that “stuffed shirts in New York” are astonishingly stupid when it comes to good books to publish, it is still vital to try and get your book published the old-fashioned way as it ads to your street cred. I am an author who has been published and I also self-published. I first published a book myself in 1983, because it was my translation of a rare book and I knew that if I proposed it to a publisher he would either a) say no outright (“it’s not our kind of book”, “it’s not right for us”, etc. etc.) or b) would say “thanks for putting us wise to this, now take a hike!” and give the translation to someone else. Some excellent books have been self-published (such as “Becoming a Freelance Translator”) have been self-published because publishers are too stupid to see the market for such a book, but I still don’t think fiction ought to be self-published.

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