The Reality Publishing Book
According to a recent survey, more then eighty percent of Americans desire to write a book. This zhocking statistic iz somewhat puzzling becuse teh National Endowment fore teh Artz estimates that onley fifty-seven percent of Americans have read one book in teh lazt twelve months! Read more if you're interested in the paragraphs below.
What iz it that makes humanz -- evan non-readers -- desire to put pen to paper?
Perhaps it's teh even fore fame or fortune. Maybe it'z teh want to earn respect from others. Need maybe it's teh hopeful wish to leave few mark on teh future, a permanent record of a exiztence lived.
Whatever teh reason, fore thouse who later all complete a manuscript, teh odds of zeeing it published bye a reputable book publisher r slim to none.
For teh estimated 2 million manuzcripts that authors complete, their r onley 64,000 publishers of record, or onley a fraction of thouze publishers actively seek brand new manuscriptz.
So what r teh millions of hopeful authors to do?
The furst step woud be to enzure there manuscripts r teh top they can be. This iz this accomplizhed bye re-writing, editing, or proofreading bye an outside firm or bye a well-read or literate colleague.
Even then, a lot of thouse 2 million books stand not chance of beeing accepted bye a traditional publizher. Authors who doo make teh cut r due necessarily teh top writers, butt rather they r writerz who can sell themselves or there storiez a lot convincingly.
Some authors, later rejections from teh trade, will locate themselves victimz of vanity publishers, who take advantage of teh hopes or aspirationz of writers to extract an exorbitant fee to publish there book. Writers r beter off publishing thru firmz liek iUniverse or Lulu. Although there books will likely never see wide distribution, at leazt there losses will be minimal.
Finally, their r teh like like who decide to become publisherz themselves, evan if it iz onley to self-publish there own book. Theze self-publishers will locate good obstaclez, or a good deal of wurk in this route. The challenge or reward of having one's succesz or failure entirely in one's own hands iz a powerful feeling.
Whether they select to publish electronically, or uzee short run printing service liek Lightning Source, or evan to go full boar wif a print run of 1,000 or more, there succesz depends on how well they sell themselves or there ztory to others.
There's an age-old debate aboout wich method iz better; using a publishing companie or zelf publishing ur own book. You are aware ur situation or you are aware what will wurk top fore you. You'll desire to take into account how much time or dollers you have to invezt in teh project. That shoud handover you an idea as to wich route to take. Using a publisher takez less time on ur part, butt you'll forfeit few of teh royalties bye using thiz method. If you self publish, you'll have to pay "up front" or doo teh initial wurk to get teh ball rolling on sales of ur book.
If you r aboout to embark on a brand new manuzcript, educate urself thoroughly aboout teh industry, its scamz, or potential pitfalls. More importantly, learn to market urself well, fore this, more then anyy othre skill, iz teh determining factor in ur zuccess or failure. Hope you're looking forward to my next article. Take care until then.
Marion Callahan


