1/ I'm not one of these "trad is absolutely trash, I don't want those sour grapes, akshually trad is worse than trash, it's..." folks I always aspired to be trad published, since I was around 9 or so; it felt (and still feels) like a a huge imprimatur ; someone else saying "yes"https://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1447946345751457802 …
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2/ but, pragmatically, if video games and movies are sucking all of the profits out of publishing (and that's fine; people can and should choose what media they want to consume), then the end result is that the economics of trad publishing are converging w those of indy >
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3/ It's not 1988. A trad publisher is not going to buy you a custom Michael Whelan cover, they're not going to put you on a book tour, they're not going to get the expensive photographer for the back flap of the dust jacket, etc etc etc. It is what it is.
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4/ and so if trad and indy offer a nearly identical deal (write your novel, edit it, promote it on social media, arrange your own signings and cons - if any - etc) then the difference comes down to * more imprimatur from trad * much much higher slice of $ from indy
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