Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
What I've come to learn with self-publishing is that if you want to provide readers with something of equal quality, it requires the same amount of time and expense.
Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
I don't need to publish to make a living.
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