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Re: Pat_B
Great comment. So true.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 3, 2017 at 7:44 AM
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Taps I read your post with great interest. Good job! As one who has
self-published (and almost got accepted by a commercial publisher once) it seems to me the easy part of the process is the writing. The writer has control of character, plot, what to research to fill in her own blanks, style. Unlike life which is contrarily unpredictable, she can decide on a happily-ever-after. But the selling and promoting, etc. is a beyutch! You never know what meaning a reader will take from something you wrote - they're working out of their own mental dictionary. Sometimes they miss the point entirely, and in conversation about the story will challenge something that was never there...
posted by
Pat_B
on March 3, 2017 at 5:13 AM
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Not much of a return for the writer! sam 
posted by
sam444
on March 2, 2017 at 6:58 PM
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TAPS
I love books! Reading books...Thank you, TAPS, that's a whole lot of stuff there to think about! Yikes!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on March 2, 2017 at 4:01 PM
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those are all true if you go the regular route...I epublished and now looking to put them in print...needing to figure out createspace or amazon's new pod
posted by
Annicita
on March 2, 2017 at 12:39 PM
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TAPS
A great post with all the facts of getting published. I did it twice and that's it for me now.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 2, 2017 at 11:32 AM
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There is a whole lot to the publishing industry.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 2, 2017 at 9:57 AM
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Or, stand in line after the Obamas for a publisher that would do all of it love.
posted by
BC-A
on March 2, 2017 at 9:45 AM
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I had one published but it never sold or if it did they didnt inform me
posted by
Lanetay
on March 2, 2017 at 8:44 AM
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I love to see my books in print and they make great gifts. The author can buy them for much less than anyone else so my greatest fun is to give them to friends. Oh I love royalties too. Last year Kindle paid me $15.00!! But you my darling friend are a published author. All of us here at Blogit get paid a penny or two.
It is an exhausting exercise to publish and not my favorite thing to be doing. Selling is worse. I just cannot do that and have long ago accepted that obscurity is my place in the World.
posted by
Kabu
on March 2, 2017 at 8:23 AM
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Well I am far too lazy to venture into that area. Unless of course I somehow find i am related to royalty and then bingo.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 7:55 AM
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TAPS
Daunting, LOL. I have never written a book either! I have written what I had to write for academic purposes, but nothing beyond that. For me there's another reason - I have lots and lots of books, and have read many more, and I have always found I was more interested in other people's words than my own! Maybe because my own thoughts are too familiar to me and hence boring, LOL...But you and I are in good company - Socrates didn't write any books either...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 2, 2017 at 7:00 AM
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