Waiting to hear back from publishers, editors and agents is tedious business. I haven't had a lot of opportunity to write so I've been reading. A few books, none of them worth mentioning other than I will never pick up another book by LKH again. There has also been the online conference Left Behind and Loving It hosted by Lynn Viehl. As usual, I found that reading everyone's opinion on what I should be doing was old after awhile. I hate that. Even if people aren't telling me that I need to do it that way I start to feel like they are and get all upset. It's important for me to pace myself in these things - my insecurities end up projecting onto other people and I feel judged. (Hey, at least I know that it's an issue!)
Anyway, I was intrigued by the idea of self-publishing ebooks. I might be trying to sell specific novel length stories, but short stories take less time to write and until I'm more popular no one wants them. If I self publish for a couple of bucks per download - maybe that will help bridge this incredibly huge gap. I think that's what I'm going to do. Why not? Most authors seem to publish print books or self publish. A few offer free ebooks to readers, but they usually have print books that they want to hook you for. So, I plan to shop the novels to editors and agents while self-publishing the short stories and then maybe offering them for free after I have published a few print books. It just seems more proactive. Plus I feel like the publishing business is being shook up and I want to take the opportunity to walk my own path.
I just really hate doing what everyone else does. : )
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