A good author pours his/her creativity and energy into writing a book.  A ‘successful’ author squanders his/her energies in successfully jumping the many agent and publishing hoops.   ‘Successful’ authors have cheated readers of his/her best work.  And I personally don’t consider that a success.

Self published authors are the real success, even if they never recieve much renumeration for their books.  Support self published authors and thumb your nose at the book publishing industry that has shamefully let society down as they grovel for money.

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Frequently Asked Questions -

My newest book needs a good publisher, do I need a literary agent? – Certainly not! You did your work in writing the book, so why should you pay leech fees to an agent?

My book requires a publisher that will pay me royalties, will you give me an author advance? Absolutely! Any publisher that takes your literary work on should demonstrate their good faith by paying something up front. An advance on the expected royalty proves the book publisher will actually produce and market the literary work.

Does this publishing house accept fiction, genre, poetry, non-fiction or romance novels? Yes.

My book requires a publisher but it also needs editing, cover art, printing and promotional material, does this publishing company provide these – at no charge? Of course! An author writes and a publisher provides the full support it’s just as simple as that.

My book needs a publisher and I’ve found a publisher for my book that meets my requirements! I love a happy ending!

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Unfortunately, this post is fiction. In a perfect world – no, make that in a half-decent world, book publishing would work the way this post describes. But corrupt book publishers won’t even look at a book that a literary agent leech hasn’t got his/her money-suckers into. And corrupt book selling stores put crap on co-opted rack space (equals the prime sales areas paid for by corrupt publishing houses).

My book requires a publisher. Good luck with that. Readers need publishers to provide good books too but that doesn’t happen either.

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Self Publish You Own

How many big publishers are there? (I don’t care so i won’t enumerate the big publishers).  Now how many self-publishers are there?  Self-publishers are as the sands on the beach: we are so numerous.  So why do the big publishers account for the largest number of book sales?  It’s because big publishers think they own the readers.  The big publishers co-opt the good book store shelves and monopolize the advertising and online sales.

All you self-published authors out there – STOP – and ask yourself – WHY?  We self publishers outnumber the big publishers by a huge margin.  Why are we struggling in the table scraps when the feast should be ours.  Let’s GANG up on the big publishers and show them that the self-publishers rule.

PS.  I’m doing what I can.  Let me help to promote your self-published book.

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Readers, what do you think of the state of book publishing?  Do you feel the book publishing industry serves you well?  Honestly, self-published authors don’t have much faith in the the conventional book publishing process – which is why they decided to self publish.  But let’s try to look at it from both sides of the book publishing situation.

With nearly everyone having a word processor on their computer, a larger percentage of the public are able to write a book.  In decades past, a manuscript might need retyping too many times to permit anyone without a dedication to the authoring craft to write a book.  The publishers were able to read though all submissions to select the ones they would publish.  Now, they can’t because the sheer number of submissions is astronomical.  So the book publishers generally only accept and read submissions from known agents.  This inserts an extra step in the book publishing acceptance process that was not there in the by-gone eras.  And frankly, that’s where the biggest problem to self-published authors and any author hopefuls as well.

Even getting a manuscript in front of a reputable book publishing agent is nearly as impossible as having a book publisher see it directly.  And with a swelling number of aspiring authors to ‘feed on’, a number of nefarious characters pass themselves off as reputable book publishing agents – in order to bilk money from authors.  The author – literary agent – book publisher track is littered with the broken dreams of countless would-be authors.  It’s a deplorable situation and one has to wonder: certainly many of the casualties were not really publishable books, but how many were actually gems that fell back into obscurity?  That is a waste of human talent and the fault really lies with the book publishing industry.

Instead of farming the filtering process off to agents, perhaps a reader review process should have been implemented long ago.  (But it’s never too late).  Here at Click My Lit, my long range plan is to attempt something new.  But I’ll talk about that when I’m further into it.  My only goal for now is helping self published authors to get their work read by readers – despite their having been shunned by the book publishers and the book publishing agents.

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This is a digital publishing age and digital self publishing is cheap and easy. Actually, It’s more like free but you may need a digital self publishing guide book and you’ll likely want your own digital reader too – those cost a bit.

You’ve probably heard of Amazon.Com. Lol, the world’s biggest online retailer, you’ve heard of it. They sell massive amounts of books and they also sell many of those books on kindle format. A kindle is a really cool way of reading. Click the link to see it.

Kindle: Amazon’s 6″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

Self-publishing a book on a Kindle format is not that difficult. I’ve done it but I already had the book fairly well formatted already and I already had an Amazon Associate account. You will have to get an account so they know where to send your royalty money.  I honestly don’t know how to describe the process from scratch. Fortunately, I don’t have to because instructions are already available.

Publish Your Book On The Amazon Kindle: A Practical Guide

After you have your account set up (that’s free), it’s just a matter of uploading your document and tweeking the digital self publishing format. And your digital self published book is then for sale and available on Amazon, for readers to buy and enjoy on their Kindle reader. Then you have to tell me you’ve got it done so that I can help promote your sales – so I get a digital self published book sales commission.

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