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Write, write, and write some more. If there's a writer's group near you, join. Our writer's group helps writers write better, help story development, do beta reads, and provide assistance in the independent publication process. We also plan to put together a couple anthologies in the near future.
If you want to start by building your universe, suggest short stories that you can submit to the various anthologies that are going on these days. Some are for charity, so you won't get income from it, but you will get author credit. Others are income producing; not much, but every little bit helps.
You might want to touch base with the publisher of "It Came From The Trailer Park," Three Ravens Press. They have a newsletter where they announce anthologies. https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/07/t...ublishing.html
In the way out there world of anthologies, look here:
Write, write, and write some more. If there's a writer's group near you, join. Our writer's group helps writers write better, help story development, do beta reads, and provide assistance in the independent publication process. We also plan to put together a couple anthologies in the near future.
If you want to start by building your universe, suggest short stories that you can submit to the various anthologies that are going on these days. Some are for charity, so you won't get income from it, but you will get author credit. Others are income producing; not much, but every little bit helps.
You might want to touch base with the publisher of "It Came From The Trailer Park," Three Ravens Press. They have a newsletter where they announce anthologies. https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/07/t...ublishing.html
In the way out there world of anthologies, look here:
Thanks for the reply. I used to write (early 1990s) but my group fell apart and I'm just getting back to it. I found a group here. Some of the advice they gave me was to start a blog and a youtube channel, since you want to have a following built before you submit a novel to a publisher. I didn't really want to do all that, and I'm not sure how to proceed because I haven't finished, and may not be able to finish, a novel.
Honestly I'm not sure I'm a novelist. My comfort zone was a ten-page memoir. Maybe an anthology is an angle.
The leader of the group is published. One of the things she told me was, "Hey, you're new to the group. We'd rather make the suggestions and let you decide which to adopt than hold our tongues. It's better in the long run." Then she pointed to her paperback, which had several post-it type notes in it. I gathered that after printing it, she realized she had a typo here or the wrong punctuation there, so on amazon it's now "second edition." I guess that's publish-on-demand?
According to these people, if you can sell 500 copies on amazon, they say you are a "best seller."
Honestly I'm not sure I'm a novelist. My comfort zone was a ten-page memoir. Maybe an anthology is an angle.
The leader of the group is published. One of the things she told me was, "Hey, you're new to the group. We'd rather make the suggestions and let you decide which to adopt than hold our tongues. It's better in the long run." Then she pointed to her paperback, which had several post-it type notes in it. I gathered that after printing it, she realized she had a typo here or the wrong punctuation there, so on amazon it's now "second edition." I guess that's publish-on-demand?
According to these people, if you can sell 500 copies on amazon, they say you are a "best seller."
I'm having a blast submitting stories to anthologies. I now have enough out there (four) that I set up an author page on Amazon.
Errors can be corrected easily in e-book versions. The author submits version 2 or whatever, and e-book readers get an update to download. With print-on-demand anyone who orders a hard copy will get the current revised version.
Spousal Unit has sold just under 30,000 books on Amazon, from his five independently published novels and the two anthologies he's in. He's feeling pretty successful...
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