It's About Freakin' Time
So, as an author in the 2020’s you can choose two ways to publish. You can go the traditional route or you can go indie, or what some call self-publishing (I actually was trained in writing school back in the mid-1990s to hate this term so I prefer indie).
Fact, traditional publishing takes far, and I mean, far longer than indie publishing.
Another fact, I am a pathologically impatient person. That’s why although, I’m a hybrid author (meaning I publish traditionally and indie), I’m more drawn to the indie side of things.
Why?
It’s simple. Indie publishing takes far less time than traditional. In the latter, you need to send the finished manuscript to the agent. Agent takes a couple of months to read and get it sold. Publisher then takes months to edit, and pub date is usually, at minimum, a year from when you sign the contract.
In that amount of time--say, 16 months--I can write and publish (and I kid you not) 16 or more indie books (stories, novelettes, novellas, novels) under my label, Bear Media. These books will be immediately for sale and making me cash money.
Trust me when I say the reader doesn’t care what publishing house is represented in the book spine so long as they are getting a great story for their hard earned cashola.
So, in the final analysis, which method of publishing would you choose? Traditional, indie, or hybrid?
Just remember this my friend, you can always make more money. But you can’t make more time.
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