Life With a Small Publisher: The Road to Self or Indie Publishing Part 3
In the last installment, I had parted ways with my agent and gotten contracts for two books with two different publishers. One publisher was small but more traditional. The other was more digital oriented. Both planned to release the books in ebook and print formats. Neither paid an advance. Both had easy to read, author friendly contracts. One wanted a two year commitment, the other wanted four. What Did I Learn With Small Publishers? The first book came out with the more traditional publisher. Now that I know more about digital publishing, I feel bad about the condition of the manuscript I submitted. I’ve always written in Apple word processing software. Lady Runaway probably began in AppleWorks, but I’m sure I was using Pages by the time it was submitted. I remember I had to buy Word for Mac because all the publishers wanted submissions in Word. That poor manuscript had been through several software updates and then was pasted into Word. The editor who put it i...