One girl said she sent a query to agent Nathan Bramsford. According to her he rejected it so she resorted to SP. Um, sending your work out to only one agent isn’t even trying! And then turn around and blame the “system”? The post I’m talking about can be found on Nathan Bramsfor’s own blog if you Google his name and type “Self Publishing” after it.

Another SP children’s book writer who’s situation I just read about said he submitted his “middle grade” book to publishers and some weren’t interested and told him they didn’t even REPRESENT middle grade books! That told me he didn’t bother to see what those publishers even represent before sending his stuff, which of OF COURSE would result in rejection! Then agents told him they thought his manuscript was “children’s” instead and rejected him. That says he hasn’t studied the very genre he wrote before submitting. Unprepared. He then decided to SP his book.

My point is, I feel like many SP authors destroy their chances of snagging an agent/doing things step by step because they want a “short cut” to being an “author”. There IS no short cut. SP is just Vanity- you pay someone to make you feel like you’re a real author, instead of having someone “pay YOU”.

And yes, they say the amount of SP books published these days is greater than traditional titles. But sadly, SP books only make a tiny fraction of books actually BOUGHT by consumers. There is no “outcry” from consumers for more SP books to look at because they are to busy shopping at Barnes and Nobles, buying The Lovely Bones, Twilight Saga, HP, The Passage by Justin Cronin, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and other books people actually WANT to read!

As someone who thought carefully about whether to self-publish my new book (The Political Speechwriter’s Companion: A Guide for Speakers and Writers)– and decidedto have CQPress do it, let me tell you why I agree with you. 1) You’re right — for a lot of people, self-publishing carries a stigma; it’s the mark of someone not good enough to have a “real” publisher buy the book and assume risk. They’re not always right, but the reaction is common. 2) While self-publishing can work with a genuinely entrepreneurial writer, there are plenty of ways to be entrepreneurial. For me, blogs, workshops and ways to supplement CQ’s skillful marketing group give me more than enough ways to be entrepreneurial. 3)Writers are prone to deceive themselves about their own work. It’s understandable — who can look at something they’ve worked on for trwo years and say, “Yeah, it’s crap.” While traditional publishers can be wrong, if they turn a manuscript down one after the other, that’s a warning sign no writer should ignore.

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“Where will it be sold?” they ask.

“Barnes & Noble, Borders, amazon.com, and local bookstores all over,” I reply.

Then their eyes light up, and I see a look of respect. “Oh, it’s for real,” they say. Then I can tell they thought maybe it would be an e-book and not a “real book.”

So I found it interesting that I got that question from some rather than a question about the publisher, which is John Wiley, by the way. My book, if it’s okay to mention here, is Mort gage Ripoffs and Money Savers.

Great question, Bob.