Self-Publishing Part 7: Testing the Author’s Reaction Time
These are the same question large buyers—bookstores and book clubs—ask when considering a book.
Self-Publishing Part 7: Before the Good Things Start, Unexpected Tasks
That deadline was in seven days: A week to submit a complete marketing analysis and plan.
This was completely unexpected.
Self-Publishing Part 6: The Judgement
We will not move the project until we hear from you in order to make sure we have the correct version.
Committed—Self-publishing Part 5: Last Stop Before the judgement
Next edit is the final stop before the reading that will either recommend the book to the Editorial Board for acceptance into the Special Recognitions program with an Editor’s Choice designation—or not.
Going it Mostly Alone: the Publishing Path of *A Perfect Blindness*
But not in the way Developmental Editor suggested. Nor in a way anyone could have imagined.
Going it Mostly Alone: the Publishing Path of A Perfect Blindness
ended by suggesting a ‘book doctor’.
Going it Mostly Alone: the Publishing Path of A Perfect Blindness
I was burned out on it. I had several other ideas I wanted to move on to.
Going it Mostly Alone: the Publishing Path of A Perfect Blindness
this forces a gut check: a clear eyed evaluation of the writer’s true commitment and the book’s realistic possibilities of selling enough copies to, at least, break even.
Going it Mostly Alone: the Publishing Path of A Perfect Blindness
Then, I got a humbling summary evaluation of my manuscript:
Going it Mostly Alone: the Publishing Path of A Perfect Blindness
I had a simple choice: stick to my artistic guns and refuse to remove the subterfuge and find another publisher, or revise