STIL AT IT!

Writing is not difficult, advertising and marketing, now that is!  

I find myself dragging my heels on my book release simply because I don't want to deal with the whole social media side of things.

I understand POD is the way to go, especially when you read in local paper that Canadian authors are getting a reduction in royalities, and so on for their daily bread here in Canada.  It seems like traditional publishers want more and more from writers for less and less.

I for one, don't see the point of sending something off to see if it will be accepted by a publisher if it means not only are you limited by the contract you sign, or the chunk of percentage they want, BUT THEY ALSO WANT YOU ALREADY TO HAVE A SERIOUS FOLLOWING OR THEY WON'T LOOK AT YOU!

So what is the point if I have to do the work to get the following before I even begin to get looked at?  Add to this, here in Canada many of the publishing houses get grants to do a good amount of their work.  I know in one case of a friend who had a book published by a small publisher, and then when he asked for re-print, they said "sorry, we don't have any grant money for that"! And of course, they had his book rights so he couldn't take it anywhere else!  His book but no control.

Another person had her manuscript accepted not knowing the company was splitting in two...the half that was going on line, had her manuscript and the half that was printing had nothing!  She had to go to court to get her book back and it took YEARS!

So, I remind myself of all this as I psych myself up to continue towards printing on Demand.  I will get there eventually, however I needed this break time to decide my options and which way I wanted to proceed.  Soon I will be back at it, but we all need time to "compost" before going any farther!
Good luck and carry on!