Authors ask me if they should use a publisher or go indie. I tell them how after 2016 my first publisher announced Christians are too dangerous to be allowed to work in healthcare and threatened to start a campaign to get me fired from my day job because of my faith.
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Then I heard about @NickColeBooks and learned how much worse publishers can be. Look up his story about Harper Collins attempting to smother his career to assuage the rage of an editor who took personal offense to a story detail in a non-political fiction novel they asked him for
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Authors shouldn’t trust publishers. Treat them as hostile agents. Big and small, they take control of your projects. There are a few out there who act in good faith. A very small, precious few. But you surrender nearly total control in exchange for paying your publishing costs.
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Indie sounds like it’s a better option.
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It’s the only option unless you like living with a sword above your head.
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