Do you have any tips about self publishing?

Oh, I intend to query and submit until my fingers bleed from typing so much, but that can only last so long. I believe in my book, but I am not sure how to get a publishing house to agree. Finding an agent is an option, but it is hard to do that too and know you are getting a quality agent.

Now, now, I am with Publish America. For a first time writer, it's completly legit, you don't have to pay millions just to get the book published. Now, I'd say find yourself an agent for the book. That's what I would do.

but, STAY AWAY FROM SELF PUBLISHING, unless you want to be broke!

Oh, did you frame your $1.00 advance? Have you gotten one of those $0.00 royalty checks?
Do you have a lollypop tree with the title of your book printed on the sticks? Are you good friends with pipe smoker or the French woman?

lol irish, you sure can come up with some comebacks!

The information he gave was so off base and dare I say either a lie or he's naive on how it really works to be published.
I'll give him a break and think it is just the PA brain washing that has gotten to him.
PA is a scam. Pure and simple. Some learn it quickly, others learn it but are in such denial they continue to lie to others to save their own face.

Gee, Irish, what crawled up your butt and died?*lol*
I have a qualified agent and have submitted my book to a publishing agency, not PA, I just needed a place to start my research in the publishing world and PA was the least riskful on my part. Savvy?

Thank you.

At least it is better than paying 10 thousand dollars for some other publishers to get your book out. No, honestly, someone wanted me to do that.

I must ask though, how would you know was PA does? you are so against them I am wondering if you had dealings with them yourself? Oh well, I have heard that you can be a hypocrit and still be right...

I want to see a bill from Penguin, Dell, and other publishers that a writer received to have their book published. How much did J.K. Rowlings have to pay to get the Harry Potter books published? I'll wait while you come up with that information.

Who's your agent? I'm curious to know if he/she even knows you had a PA book.

Actually, I was smart enough to research and found out the truth about PA before I submitted anything to them. I know people who have had things printed by them and what they had to go through to get their rights back. The only ones making money are PA, not the writers.

You just keep on drinking the kool-aid.

Kool aid? Did you happen to get caught in a kimkins scam?

Not familiar with that.
The kool-aid reference has to do with anything that obviously is a scam, lie, etc. but people still fall for it despite the evidence that it is no good. Like PA, for instance.

Actually that is what I meant. There was koolaid references with the kimkins diet because all she sells you for the steep price of $60 is a starvation diet of 500 calories or less and bootcamp abuse exercises complete with colorful language. There is a big legal dispute in California over it.

My agent is my own buisness. Our contract states confidentiality, thank you very much. Gee, if this is how you treat strangers who were only offering freindly advice, I hate to think how you treat your family? how fun are you to live with anyway, Irish?

Just because you believe you are right, doesn't mean that I am not right as well. We come from two different parts of life and clearly clash, respectfully, you ned to curb that mouth of yours because a) I too have the right to free speach, just like you, and b) you won't make a whole lot of freinds if you go and insult people willy nilly. YOu may think that I am retarded for chosing PA. but, it was my choice, not yours.

You chose a different path than I, I respect that. Now please, a little respect from you to me isn't much to ask. But, I shant delude myself, I don't think a flamboyant, tardy-gated, distempered whey-face as yourself would give me such a concideration.

Now, please excuse me as I go spend my time on something productive!

Whatever, but you are misleading people and if you're happy with PA then that is great. Be honest instead of telling them it will cost them to have a book published. Publishing is far different than being printed by PA.
If you actually have an agent that's great too. I only asked because the legitimate ones tend to steer clear of anything to do with PA. If I had known you were so touchy I wouldn't have asked.

You can't argue my points so you have to insult. Why am I not surprised?

Ha! YOU started it by saying oh how smart you were because YOU just happened to do a bit more research, insulted me by inplying that I would mislead people. PA has over a thousand authors and if you are savvy in the buisness side of things you can honestly sell you book and get a lot in royalties. I can argue your points becuase it is called 'FREEDOM OF SPEACH!'

Get with the program mate, savvy?

Evidently freedom of speech includes bad spelling for you.

So sorry you can't deal with me being smarter than you. Life sucks, don't it?

Your excuses are weabling precariously off the cliff! In fact, I see them splashing about and drowning at this very moment.
(and, you are not smarter than me, which is very apparent at the moment, by the way)
Anyway, with publishing, I say go with the people that you feel will benefit you the most, be nice to them and get some brownie points, especially for a new author, this is important because if they see that you work well with them and are open to suggestions, they may just take you on. This is a buisness relationship, remember that.

Yes, I suppose this is true enough. I am just in the ideas stage right now. Book is still being written as we speak, so I am not ready to submit, but it is always good to have a plan of action. I wish I knew of an up to date website that has the lists of publishing houses and literary agents. They library usually carries a book, but ours just has one from 2003.

Not a website, but you'd be after something like http://tinyurl.com/5rfl3j

Not the one I'm used to, but then I haven't bought one in a couple of years, and when I did, it was the UK version. This or something very like it in the recommendations would have exactly what you want, though.

Yes, that is the one I need. I may be able to get it through inner-library loan. I am sure another library would have it.

Well of course I want a legit site to work with. In most cases I have seen, if they are charging it is fees I can't afford to throw away on someone that doesn't help me make the best book we can make. If I am paying to publish, then I expect quality all the way.

My book is a fictional historic based tween novel. I am targeting 9-14 year olds with this series. I am fairly certain there aren't any other books like it on the market.

Well, when you do decide to give it a try I hope all goes well for you.:) I hope you get to publish soon.

Thanks I do too.

I do know about genres. And I know different publishers focus on different areas. Some just take picture books for a certain age, some just take adult fiction, some just take chapter books for older kids, some take a little of everything. I get that. I have done my research before, but I just am not sure how I want to go about doing it and now that I got what I feel is a great novel idea, I don't want it to get buried under indecision like the others have.

I will have to check that site out. I know it will take quite awhile for publishing houses to get things going. It is a lot to think about.

Well, I will first and foremost try to get it published through a house. That is my goal. I just don't want them to change it too much. Then again, I can just be stubborn like my favorite, brilliant authors. I am quite excited about this and will do what it takes to get it out there. And if that means I end up doing all the work myself, then I will. I am giving myself a whole year to get it through a publishing company. Whether a direct submit or agented.

Good luck, writing is usually easy, getting it OUT there is the task of tasks!

I hear you. I'm not savvy with the whole selling it on my own thing, some selfpublishers give you the option of some pretty nifty ofptions that help you sell the book in question. I'm going with this one off of Amazon.com where all you have to pay for is a preview of the book, and then they'll sell the book online once you upload it. And maybe if the book is overly popular, they'll print it and put it on real bookshelves of bookstores.