Imagine this:
You decide to independently publish your book. You've done the most professional job you can and you're marketing your little heart out. Sales start to pick up momentum, your Amazon rank is respectable. Life is good. Things continue to roll along and a few days after you appear at an event, you get an email. It's from someone you don't recognize, but the subject says "Would like to talk about your book". You open it and it's from a publisher, a legitimate traditional publisher.
What do you do? What would you say? Are you sure?
Admittedly, this doesn't happen a lot, but if you really do sell successfully it can happen. It did to an author I know personally. In fact, her books sell so well (home school topics) she's been approached more than once. And she turned them down each time. That's not a typo, she turned them down. After she read what they had to offer, she knew it wasn't the best thing for her business.
A lot of authors dream of getting such a phone call, but if it happened to you, are you truly prepared to answer it?
Good Writing & God Bless,
Cheryl Pickett
7/2/09
Be Careful What You Wish For
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2 comments:
I can understand how someone might turn down a publisher. If you have spent a great deal of money to create and market you book, only to have a publisher offer you less per book than you are getting now doesn't make good business sense. Sometimes the amount of increased sales doesn't balance out the decrease revenue.
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