I think ebooks and epublication are an emerging alternative scenario, especially if you write in certain genres,
I was really excited when I heard about Harlequin's Carina Press imprint, especially since they said they were looking for stories that by their subject matter weren't fitting in anywhere else, but I'm so afraid the Horizons vanity imprint they started up at the same time will taint Carina that I'm not willing to query them now.
Feeling that you require a bookstore while at the same time decrying traditional models does not seem to be logical, to me.
Logical, maybe not, but I can easily see why someone would think that way. From an outsider's point of view, one doesn't have anything to do with the other. If it's between covers, it's a book, if it's a book they have to put it in bookstores, because that's what bookstores sell. Sort of by definition [g].
What this person wants is another way to get into bookstores besides the traditional model. Heck, I get that one. That's what we all want. He just got desperate enough to believe there was one, is all. He's not going to want to hear you tell him it doesn't exist, because then he no longer has control over his own dreams. Nobody wants to hear that.
It's a fact just as hard as the one you're trying to tell him, unfortunately.
The hardest part about trying to break into traditional publishing, IMHO, is realizing that you have absolutely no control over whether it actually happens or not, beyond writing the best book you can, which isn't enough most of the time.
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Date: 2009-11-23 12:21 am (UTC)I was really excited when I heard about Harlequin's Carina Press imprint, especially since they said they were looking for stories that by their subject matter weren't fitting in anywhere else, but I'm so afraid the Horizons vanity imprint they started up at the same time will taint Carina that I'm not willing to query them now.
Feeling that you require a bookstore while at the same time decrying traditional models does not seem to be logical, to me.
Logical, maybe not, but I can easily see why someone would think that way. From an outsider's point of view, one doesn't have anything to do with the other. If it's between covers, it's a book, if it's a book they have to put it in bookstores, because that's what bookstores sell. Sort of by definition [g].
What this person wants is another way to get into bookstores besides the traditional model. Heck, I get that one. That's what we all want. He just got desperate enough to believe there was one, is all. He's not going to want to hear you tell him it doesn't exist, because then he no longer has control over his own dreams. Nobody wants to hear that.
It's a fact just as hard as the one you're trying to tell him, unfortunately.
The hardest part about trying to break into traditional publishing, IMHO, is realizing that you have absolutely no control over whether it actually happens or not, beyond writing the best book you can, which isn't enough most of the time.