Frequently Asked Questions -

My newest book needs big publishers, 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 big 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!

Do YOU have Latent Psychic Powers?

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 big publishers to provide good books too but that doesn’t happen either.

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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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I’m a self-published author and I know a number of other self-published authors.  It’s a tough literary world out there and it seems everyone is against you or trying to wring money out of your disillusionment.  At Click My Lit, the promotion we do for you is FREE.  That is NO STRINGS ATTACHED FREE.

Why? How? Who? (I’d throw in what and where but that would be a cliche).  The who, is clickmylit.net and if you would like to put a link on your blog to us, we would be happy but it’s not mandatory (No Strings Attached).  How is the second question (but who wasn’t the first).  I personally found that I’m better at promotion in general, than I am at selling my own work.  I’m putting my talents to work for you.  Why, because big publishers are turning the literary world to terra cotta and someone NEEDS to do it if this generation is going to field any classic authors.  The big publishers are only in it for the money and they are flushing away the cream, before it can rise to the top of the literary world.

How can a self-published author become involved with Click My Lit?  Just contact us.  Tell us a bit about your work and where it can be found.  Click My Lit will take it from there.  We’ll feature your work on our blog and draw some web traffic to it.  This is win-win clickmylit.net gets a commission from the sale (a self-publisher wouldn’t have collected on that anyways) and you get the royalty.  Pure and simple.

Self-published authors should bookmark clickmylit.net.  More will be coming to this site soon and it’s all to benefit the self-publishers, the literary wold AND the reading public.

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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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