Just a few years ago, there was still a huge stigma with self-publishing. The general view was that no traditional publisher – and in particular the Big Publishers – would ever touch an author who had gone the DIY route. How times change.
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Just a few years ago, there was still a huge stigma with self-publishing. The general view was that no traditional publisher – and in particular the Big Publishers – would ever touch an author who had gone the DIY route. How times change.
To be read you need to be published. And there’s the rub. Here’s what happened when one writer contacted Xlibris, one the largest and most global of the self-publishing organisations.
Self-publishing is nothing new – authors including Jane Austen, Martin Luther, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf have all done it – but the internet makes it a lot easier.
Half way through NaNoWriMo. And two thirds of the word count done, thanks to not yet needing to use the wordcount buffer
One week down, three to go. On track with a comfortable buffer for wordcount, and practically have a PhD in canal boat lavatory facilities
So it’s the first of November and this year’s NaNoWriMo has started – just 30 days to write a 50,000 word novel.