Timeline for Do most novels not get published?
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 23:10 | comment | added | Tannalein | May I ask how much effort you spent on marketing? | |
| Jul 23, 2011 at 4:14 | comment | added | Steven Drennon | I suspect Ralph was talking about self-publishing as an e-book or print on demand. Either avenue will allow you to create and publish a book at no cost and start selling it within a week after you decide it's ready. I've sold over 150 copies of my first novel, and my only cost was the $100 I spent for a professionally designed book cover. I broke even after selling 50 books, so it's all profit from here out! | |
| Mar 7, 2011 at 7:25 | comment | added | jwenting | Ralph: many publishers will require some up-front money from unpublished authors. And then of course quite a few people eventually (after dozens of rejections) will take their work to a printer and cover the cost of that first hopeful printrun themselves, then lug boxes around to bookstores hoping to sell something (and eventually handing them out for free because noone will buy from an unknown author with no connections to a publisher). | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 22:43 | comment | added | johnny | +1. I thought that was the whole point. Someone else recognizes the work as something worthy of publishing and they do all the money. | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 21:55 | comment | added | Ralph Gallagher | "So far I've managed to sell over 150 copies of the novel and didn't have to pay a dime to do so." If it's costing you money to publish your book, you're doing something wrong. | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 19:37 | history | answered | W. A. Patterson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |