Getting something published?
I am an aspiring author and I’ve been searching for information online but I continue to come up mostly empty handed. I’m wondering, where do some of you writers out there submit your work? (Short stories and full manuscripts alike)
This question is very difficult to answer without more context—information like genre, length, target reader age, etc. Also, is this your first novel? I might be able to give you a few pointers, but the industry IS changing pretty rapidly these days. Less than ten years have passed since I broke in, but it already feels like a very different world.
Now I’m curious. How has it changed in the past ten years?
Basically, the ebook front is changing a lot of things. I’d say this the major change. However, the continued shifts in the short story markets (from print to on-line, with smaller and smaller subscription rates) is another thing to be aware of. The changing roles of agents is another piece to all of this.
It will be interesting to see where ebooks take the market. I love my Nook and will probably buy most books from here on out in a digital format (The Mistborn Trilogy being the first btw).
Does that worry you? How different is the ebook vs traditional market from an author’s standpoint?
It also interests me that the limitations of a digital format are very different. For instance as an ebook A Memory of Light could be one book.
There will be both challenges and opportunities. The chance to offer an A Memory of Light single volume, with some re-arranged chapters, is one of the opportunities. I’m curious at what the future will bring. As for right now, I AM worried about the plummeting prices on ebooks.
I basically make half as much on an ebook as I do on a hardcover book—but I make more off of an ebook than I do off of a paperback. So it’s very easy that volume will compensate for the lowered prices—in which case, everybody wins.
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