Novel Writing

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Heriotze said:

I just finished my first book in December and my first novella last month but haven't heard back from agents or publishers yet. I also have a big chunk of magazine submission short stories planned for the next 2 years that I am working through each month but nothing has been published

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Have you considered indie publishing on kdp?

Heriotze said:

I am trying not to but that is potentially in the cards

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From what I’ve heard, unless you’ve sold 10,000 copies (with recorded sales, not give aways), or you’re already famous, it’s pretty impossible to get a trad publishing deal where they put any marketing behind you. If you do get trad published, you’ll have to pay for all your own marketing while they keep x amount of profits of sales.

Considering that 80% of new fiction authors last year were female, and unless you’re a legacy white guy like Stephen King or James Patterson, if you’re white cishet you pretty much have zero chance of getting trad published. Which is why I went indie.

25% of trad publishers don’t even sake 200 copies. 50% don’t even sell 1000 copies. I haven’t paid for any ads (yet), but I’ve sold over 300 copies so far just by street fairs, word of mouth, and organic marketing. I’ll start running ads once my second novel is released this summer and has minimum 50 reviews.

a lot of folks try to run ads on their first book which has zero reviews. It’s a waste of money imo.