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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Also of note was their declaration our shared program of sending documents back and forth was now a “safe space” and I was not to share more documents or contact them about projects through our shared project system. I was currently writing a story in THEIR fictional setting.
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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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Replying to @TheBrometheus
What to do, what to do. Traditional publishers won't touch me because I say "boys are not girls" on Twitter. Christian publishers won't touch me because my projects are smothered in awesomesauce rather than saccharine. But the dread lord Bezos hasn't kicked me off his site. Yet.
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Replying to @logosimian @TheBrometheus
Go indy, pay up front for your editor, cover art, cover design, and copy editing (and audiobook reader, if any) place all proceeds in pocket. That's my plan, anyway.
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Replying to @DeanBradleySFF @logosimian
Same. Kickstarter helps make that happen.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @DeanBradleySFF
I don't need Kickstarter to make Alphabeasts happen, although it would help a lot. I will need Kickstarter if I ever make one of my video games. So I'm using Alphabeasts to learn the ropes there.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @DeanBradleySFF
I find that if I try to make a slick, professional job of something, I never get it done. If I go in fast and sloppy and do an amateurish job, I learn from the process and eventually things start to get slick and professional.
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