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Self-Publishing-2019.Pdf designers to create covers and marketing festivals, prizes, reviewers, booksellers and others IS SELF-PUBLISHING campaigns. New book categories and microniches to find ways of including self-published authors in FOR YOU? have been appearing as readers make it clear what their programmes, events, listings and reviews. Are you proactive? kind of reading they want. Social sharing platforms As an independent author, you’ll like Wattpad and Patreon have brought writers and Judged on merit need to take responsibility for readers close, igniting all sorts of creative sparks. While this campaign has seen some success, we the risks, as well as the rewards, Creative freedom was my personal reason for still have a long way to go to our goal, which of publishing your own work. going indie in 2011. It gave me untold satisfaction is that books be judged and included on merit Are you brave? to take my rights back from my publisher so I and suitability, not mode of publication. Alas, You’ll need to risk time on ideas could self-publish my books my way. Corporate ignorance and stigma about self-publishing is still and marketing that may come publishing, lucrative though it was, came at too very alive, even amongst other authors. to naught; as well as money for high a price: they changed my titles; my jacket Back in 2012, as self-publishing took off, editorial and design services. blurbs left out the issues at the heart of my stories; mystery writer Sue Grafton described self- You’ll also risk your reputation with anyone who sees self- my covers were given the neon-pink headless- publishers as ‘too lazy to do the hard work’ of publishing as a second-best female treatment; my poetry and non-fiction were going through the submission and rejection option. discouraged. process. Having her first three novels rejected, Their strategies worked, taking my books to Grafton said, was good for her and she saw ‘way Are you hardworking? You’ll need to be full of energy the top of the bestseller charts. But for me the too many writers who complete one novel, and and commitment to educating experience was creatively heartbreaking and start looking for the fame and fortune they’re sure yourself about editing, design commercially shortsighted. I wanted to build they’re entitled to’. Comparing self-publishing ‘to and promotion. a true readership over time, but never felt my a student managing to conquer Five Easy Pieces on books reached the readers who would have most the piano and then wondering if s/he’s ready to be Are you entrepreneurial? You’ll need to be constantly appreciated them. And many of those who did buy, booked into Carnegie Hall,’ she called it a short cut: on the lookout for new ways based on those covers, must surely have been let ‘and I don’t believe in short cuts when it comes to to reach readers, including down by what they found inside. the arts’. the use of social media, email Going indie has been the best move of my ALLi member and bestselling thriller writer lists, newsletters, offers and writing life. Since self-publishing, my books have Adam Croft, who sold over 250,000 copies of his competitions. won awards, hit bestseller lists and sold in more books in that year alone, found this ‘outrageous’. Are you resilient? than 40 countries. (This month, my Kobo map tells ‘The complete opposite is true,’ he said. ‘Self- As Mark McGuinness advises me, I have sales in Mauritius, Japan and Peru, as publishing means finding your own proof-reader in Resilience: Facing Down well as all the usual places through North America, [and] editor, finding your own cover designer, Rejection and Criticism on the Australia and Europe). Self-publishing restored for doing all your own marketing and sales work, etc.’ Road to Success, make sure you haven’t exchanged traditional me two precious things I was in danger of losing He added, ‘I don’t even have the slightest desire to forms of rejection and criticism when corporate structures were my only choice: enter the negotiation stage with any publisher as for others that can be just as creative freedom and commercial autonomy. there’s no way any of them could offer me what painful: ‘Successful indies have I’m able to do for myself’. Society of Literature found ways to acknowledge the Making an alliance Fellow Catherine Czerkawska said Grafton’s pain – and bounce back.’ When I started to self-publish, I’d searched for an comments displayed ‘a profoundly amateurish Are you prepared to do indie-minded authors’ association to join but there and unacceptable ignorance of changes to the research? wasn’t one doing the job I felt needed to be done. industry’. You’ll need to combine intuition After an evening of listening to me wax lyrical To her credit, Grafton conceded: ‘It’s clear to with properly researched about the opportunities and lamenting the way me now that indie writers have taken more than facts and figures. Whether it’s self-publishing was being ignored, misrepresented their fair share of hard knocks and ... are actually keyword research, marketing studies, direct mail tests or dear and sidelined, my son suggested I start one myself. changing the face of publishing. Who knew?! ... I old Professor Google. Having run a writing school and literary agency can see that a hole has been blasted in the wall, in Dublin, I had no illusions about the amount of allowing writers to be heard in a new way and on a Are you financially savvy? commitment such ventures take. I knew it would number of new fronts’. Controlling costs is important for all businesses, so you must mean time away from my own writing, and from But not everyone is as open to persuasion be able to make sure you spend personal publishing possibilities. But I also knew as Grafton. Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist money where it will produce the that if my grandchildren were to ask where I was Richard Russo has said that the thought ‘literally biggest effect. when the biggest change in six centuries was chills [his] blood’; bestselling writer Jodi Picoult happening in publishing, I wanted to say, ‘right at Are you good at networking? advises, ‘DO NOT SELF PUBLISH’. As recently as The camaraderie between the heart of it, beating the drum for authors’. 2016, the Guardian ran an article by Ros Barber successful self-published authors I decided to launch the Alliance of Independent entitled, ‘For me, traditional publishing means is outstanding. Indies often work Authors (ALLi) in 2012 at the largest gathering poverty. But self-publish? No way!’. Why? Because from the ‘co-opetition’ model, of the trade in the UK: the London Book Fair. self-published authors must spend ten per cent where competitors co-operate ALLi’s mission was ethics and excellence in of their time writing and 90 per cent of their for mutual benefit. self-publishing. On the ethics front we set up a time marketing; because the ‘vast majority’ of Watchdog desk, Partner Membership to oversee indie authors have tweet streams that are 90 per self-publishing services, and an Ethical Author cent adverts; because an author of literary fiction campaign. On the excellence front, we set up needs critical acclaim and literary prizes to build education and research programs, a daily blog, their reputation; because Amazon is responsible guidebooks and other resources. for undermining author income – and because A third strand of our work is an ongoing authors offering design or editorial services to campaign to help the book industry to open up fellow indies is running what amounts to an to independent authors – urging literary events, ‘authorpreneur pyramid scheme’. 6 Sep/Oct/Nov 2018 mslexia THE EVOlUTION OF SELF-PUBLISHING Self-publishing 1.0 The first sea-change for authors wanting to self-publish was the arrival of ‘desktop publishing’ in the late 1970s, which allowed them to prepare their own texts for printing. This was followed by print-on-demand technology (POD), as digital printing processes made it economically viable to print single copies or small batches to order. A band of enterprising pioneers began printing books and pamphlets to sell by mail order, or touring bookstores with car-loads of books. Authors like Wayne Dyer, who later became household names, started out this way. Self-publishing 2.0 1990 – ‘International Year of Literature’ – launched the era of the e-book, with books in .txt, .mobi and .doc formats marketed for the first time. However, it was not until 1998 that the first digital bookstores Prejudice vs fact Many thousands of others are producing work of appeared and publishers and All of these are untrue prejudices masquerading outstanding literary merit. authors began to sell books online to be read on computers. as facts. Addressing such misinformation and Equally of interest are those who are not Mass market ‘e-paper misunderstandings around self-publishing with making a killing, creatively or commercially, but technology’ arrived and Sony actual facts and figures is a big part of ALLi’s work. who are making a living – by which I mean selling released the first e-book reader The UK Arts Council recently looked at the in sufficient numbers to quit their jobs and become in 2004, followed shortly by the 10,000 bestselling fiction titles over the past five full-time writers. You’ve probably never heard Kindle eReader in 2007. years and concluded that: ‘Outside of the top their names but they are happily building their Self-publishing 3.0 1,000 authors (at most), printed book sales alone readership and their author businesses.
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