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So without further ado, here are five myths publication I personally think need to be destroyed.
- You can only get published if you have connections. If you think even for a second, I highly recommend you get a Twitter account and start following some ASAP agents. Agents find new authors through interrogation cold all the time, that is, writers they have ever interacted with that subject to their slush pile. Do connections help sometimes? Of course, I suppose if you have any. But by and large, most authors who start do not, and it is absolutely not obligation to find success as a writer.
- Self or traditional publishing is the only way to glory and riches Repeat after me :. There is no one right answer for everyone. Self-publishing is not the right choice for everyone. Traditional publishing is not the right choice for everyone. Some people just want to see their book on the shelf when they walk into Barnes & Noble, and they are not stupid to go the traditional route to meet that dream. Some people want to have more control over the process and higher royalties and they are not stupid to go the self-publishing route to meet that dream.
Honestly, there are so many methods and options out there for writers, and we should celebrate these occasions, whether or not you intend to use them.
Also if you are in search of fame and riches, you're in the wrong profession. Write because you love to write and want to create stories, no matter how much money you can or can not do. But do not expect to get rich doing, because if this happens very rarely, it is definitely not the norm. - Anyone can write a book about a popular topic and become insta-rich. No
Every time I hear someone say something along these lines, there is an automatic connection to me that they know absolutely nothing about the industry 's edition. Those so-called success overnight, the hugely successful authors, we hear so much about are just about as rare as winning the lottery and they certainly do not find their success by jumping on a bandwagon (or all night, for that matter).
The thing that non-issue people often do not realize is that it takes years for a book to go from draft to published traditionally. Even after a contract is signed and a book is officially going to be released, it often takes two (or more) years before the book on the shelf. So to imply that writers can look at what's uber-popular, crank a book like nothing and make millions is quite wrong in several respects. And that's not even considering how difficult it is to write a book polite. Therefore, there is this. - YA novels are inferior to adult novels. It never ceases to make me angry. Already.
I do not if you do not want YA that something will not tell you, but I am say is that judging an entire class based off of preconceptions or one book that you have heard once (or hell, even one book you read and hated once) is wrong. YA authors have made some ,, beautiful, the most powerful emotional exciting books I have ever read. And just because they are written with teenagers in mind does not mean that adults can not enjoy it or they are somehow not worth as much as a book written for an adult audience. - The authors make so much money, it does not matter if I illegally downloaded their free book. This is probably one of the few things that will make me rage more than the previous point. I wrote a whole post about why this therefore beyond false , but the short version is this: most writers do not make much money to begin with, and piracy is the equivalent of money on their paychecks. The money they need for bills and food and everything else. So stop, okay?
What do you think? Do you publishing myths that you add to the list?
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Writer stock @Ava_Jae 5 Newspaper myths she believes need Stop. Do you agree? (Click for tweeter)
"You can not get published if you have connections" and four other publishing myths that need to stop. (Click for tweeter)
