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Post by veryblessedmom on Apr 18, 2009 8:45:35 GMT -5
OK, so I'm considering submitting to White Rose Publishing. I've gotten very good feedback from acfw about them. They have editors who work with you, one-on-one. That's a great thing for someone starting out. They sell from their website, Amazon and the like and work hard to advertise their authors' work.
The only bad thing I've heard is from a leader at my local writing group who says she hates to see me go this route. She said publishing with a small press is viewed worse than not being published at all and is right there with self-publishing. Her agent has only heard good things about WRP.
People at acfw have started with WRP and moved on to Steeple Hill and other larger publishers.
Any thoughts?
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Post by torainfor on Apr 18, 2009 9:58:03 GMT -5
I recently went to a writers' conference wherein the first session was with publishers. Indy presses, and even individual publishing, seems to be gaining more credibility. It may not increase your chances of getting published by a big house, but it doesn't sound like they frown on it anymore. Ultimately, it's all about sales. If you sell 50,000 books, whether it be individual, indy, or Random House, you'll get attention. Some of that's up to your writing. Some up to how much you go out and sell.
White Rose seemed to be romance, yeah? We have two writers in our group who are trying to follow our founder's example: get published in romance, then write what you want.
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Post by veryblessedmom on Apr 18, 2009 11:04:53 GMT -5
I do write romance, with a twist of spec. If water was romance and lemon spec, my stuff is water with lemon, not lemonade. I was considering trying MLP, but realized that my potential readers were somewhere else.
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Post by kirstymca on Apr 18, 2009 17:22:00 GMT -5
Lovely metaphor!
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