I read your case studies on how self-published authors have succeeded.
But, how do self-published authors manage to get their books into local bookstores?
-K
Click HERE to see my article on this topic in today’s issue of WritersWeekly.com.
In January 2001, I took the plunge and decided to focus full-time on a freelance career. At the time, I felt guilty knowing I could live comfortably on my husband’s income while I got my freelance business off the ground. Eventually, though, I realized my peace of mind depended on trying to freelance, even if my basic survival didn’t. My story appeared as a Writersweekly.com’s “Success Story” in August 2001.
This Week:
While it took us about an hour to get out of Virginia Beach, Virginia (mapquest.com doesn’t always create the most sensible directions) and while we had a slow leak in one of our tires that we had to check every hour or so, we did finally make it to the Outer Banks of North Carlina yesterday.
Never let yourself be victimized by someone else’s promises of fame…
Letters will return next week.
Not long ago, I was teaching an evening course at a local adult education center. About halfway through the session, one student posed a question.
“This may be off-topic,” she began. And she wasn’t altogether incorrect about that. But it was a good question. It was one I’d heard before, and thought about from time to time myself, and it remained with me long after our class had ended.
I have self-published three books and have been trying to build my writing credits. But I only have four magazine acceptances in four years of submissions- none for poetry or fiction. I have become increasingly frustrated by the rejections.
Here’s the most puzzling part. As a 34-year journalist, I have earned a 2004 first place award for sports column writing in the state of Pennsylvania, and was one of three finalists for a Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Award for editorial columns in 2003. Obviously, I am doing something right journalistically, but haven’t been able to make the transition to fiction and poetry. I have submitted to more than 20 publications, more than half of them multiple times.
I have had a number of rejections wherein I was encouraged as in “you were among the final submissions considered.” But that only helps for so long. Recently, I have even lacked the desire to write.
Thanks for reading this. Do you have any suggestions that could be of help?
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