I wrote a novel a few years ago.  Writing a novel is the easy part.  Then comes the minefield of marketing it.  The first line of mines are the phony agents and vanity presses disguised as real publishers.  The odds of the emerging author getting a good agent / publisher are about equal to getting struck by lightning.  The rest of the time the less than famous poet or less than famous author will self-publish or suffer from watching the manuscript pages yellow with age on the shelf.

Self publishing brings more headaches for the less than famous author or less than famous poet.  Mainstream agents and publishers will now treat the book as if it’s infected with swine flue.  And to sell enough to make a return on investment, the self-publisher has to walk boldly out into the next minefield.  Internet programs with costs, websites with more costs, search engine optimization schemes and web traffic generating miracles.  The downside are the additional costs and the possibility of not getting much in return, or worse, getting your web domain blocked by the search engines and real traffic sites.

Then one more insult to the less than famous writer’s injury are the chain bookstores.  The self published author must outlay product he/she bought, for the store to sell on consignment at 40%-55% commission.  The writer may not even get paid the remainder or have the books returned in deplorable / unsaleable condition.  The less than famous writer has a tough row to hoe.

This is sad and it’s bad for the readers too.  They are stuck with reading the crap that big publishers hope to make scads of money on.  The big publishers will stoop to any low, including  extending a dead author‘s contract beyond his/her death just to keep the  famous author’s name churning out money.

Click My Lit intends to address these problems.  If you’re an emerging writer, contact me about being reviewed and featured.  If you’re a reader, bookmark or follow me.  Read the HONEST reviews and try the less than famous literature you like, then constructively rate it for others.

Yes, other review sites likely say they are trying to promote emerging authors– but where are the results?  And what are the advertising costs or other fees?

Click My Lit ONLY gets paid when an emerging author’s literature is bought from one of our links.  We wouldn’t want it any other way–because integrity counts!

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