At the time that I was submitting, it would have cost an arm and a leg and close to 8 thousand dollars to go to a vanity press; the sheer cost of publishing via Vanity Press was beyond me. I had just started working full-time, and in retail, so even had I been willing to consider it -- which I wasn't -- I wouldn't have been able to afford it. That may be high, but 5 thousand is probably a realistic number. With POD, everything's changed.
I didn't run into Yog's law (which is how I think of "Money always flows to the author", although I'm certain other people have said it) until just after I'd sold the first novel.
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Date: 2004-07-30 06:56 pm (UTC)I didn't run into Yog's law (which is how I think of "Money always flows to the author", although I'm certain other people have said it) until just after I'd sold the first novel.