230 Quotes About Publishing

Should an unpublished writer spend money for an editor? I did my own due diligence and searched for ones that edited many books in my genre (found one through my writers group), and paid each one handsomely. It was well worth it. Got me traditionally published, each time.

In Debray's formulation, when a publisher pays an author an advance he is paying not for the author's intellectual labour but for his social capital, the accumulated cost of maintaining the network of contacts which make the author a personality, rather than the content of his book, a marketable commodity.

POD books are like snowflakes. Every book can be a tiny bit different.

We can’t be everything for our book. Sometimes, we must surrender it to people who can help.It’s all about the book. It’s not a reflection of your competence.But, please ask from the right people. Hire the right people. Approach experts. Friends are great for moral support, but when you need expertise and advise, then ask the experts. Otherwise, you’d be a blind man being guided by another blind man telling you which way to go. A practice that is too common in this industry.

When you're a new author, you have a fearsome enemy. ANONYMITY. We know this, and it's our biggest fear. The fear that nobody will read our work plagues most of us, keeping us awake at nights. No matter what some authors say, we published because we want to be read.

It is hard to remember that every forgotten book (and we have published hundreds such) once seemed to its publisher something of value and likely to live for a long time.

First poems! They must be written on casual scraps of faded paper, interspersed here and there with withered flowers, or a lock of blond hair, or a discolored piece of ribbon, and the trace of a tear must still be visible in several places ... But first poems that are printed, in livid black and white, on dreadfully smooth paper are poems that have lost the finest points of their sweet, virginal charm, and now arouse a ghastly feeling of distaste in the author.

Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded.

I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.