Traditional Versus Self-Publishing
Traditional Versus Self Publishing Most authors dream of being the next J.K. Rowling or even the modern day Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. However we look at it, life for the average author is tough to start with. I am speaking as if I have loads of experience........ Although I am a relatively new self published author, I do have the experience of being both traditionally and self published and so for this reason, I wanted to write this blog post. I also wanted to get it all down in writing while the whole self publishing thing is still fresh in my memory - it is important to capture the moment at my age! I didn't realise that there was a traditional versus self publishing argumentuntil I self published my own book. My traditionally published bookwas one I co-edited with a colleague and is a textbook. There was one shortcut I made during that route and that was that I didn't have to approach an agent as textbook editors still allow direct contact from would-be authors. I was able to ring the editor, talk through my proposal, get a go ahead and then jump through all the other hoops required, knowing that the book was highly likely to be accepted for publishing. In this article I thought I would like to consider the advantages and disadvantages to both forms of publishing as the publishing world has been taken by storm over the past few years by the whole Indie scene, mainly due to that ever growing phenomena called Amazon! Traditional Publishing Advantages Kudos - The first thing my friends asked me last year when I published my nurse memoir was who is the publisher? Even my oldest friends were less than encouraging (note I said oldest not best!)Agent - if you have an agent (and you have…