The Book Publishing Opportunity No One Seems to Talk About
I make a living writing fiction; here’s how I do it.
I’ve just read yet another article on self-publishing and Amazon. This one was called “3 More Reasons I’m Not Buying Your Self-Published Book.” As of November 14, it has 4.4k claps and 94 comments.
A previous one I’d read, just the other day, has twice the claps called Why Writers are Leaving Amazon. Before that was “The Hidden Costs of Self-Publishing” by Alison McBain (3.4k claps). All of these very popular articles seem to imply three options for publishing books: Self-publishing, vanity or subsidy publishing, or being “traditionally published,” that is, by a Big Six publisher or one of their imprints.
I’ve been making a living writing books for ten years and I’ve not done any of this.
Because these are not the only options.
There is a whole realm of publishing out there that — apparently — gets completely overlooked in both the blogosphere and amongst the higher-brow literati: independent publishers.
I have had over twenty-five books published by the following: Joffe Books, Bookouture, Inkubator Books, and Aethon Thrills.
This is not self-publishing and these are not subsidy publishers: they never charge…
