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A Sad Reality for New Writers: Publishers Don’t Care If Your Book Is Good
They care if you are famous.
I had just finished writing the draft of my second book and started submitting my manuscript to some publishers who accepted manuscripts directly from writers without needing an agent.
One of the forms was particularly different, as it was asking me questions about who I was beyond what I had written.
First question: how many followers do you have, and how many social networks are you present on?
Thankfully, I had decided to increase my following on social media in case I had to self-publish, and I was proud of what I had accomplished in just one year, so I responded: 12,000 followers on my Spanish Tiktok, 2,700 followers on YouTube, 1,000 followers on my English Instagram.
Second question: how many views do you get in total every month?
“From 200,000 to 800,000 total views across all my social media,” I wrote. They probably needed to know how much persuasive power I had to know if my writing would also impact thousands of people.
Third question: Mention friends or people close to you who also have a presence on social media:
