Aw, squiders. Sometimes it’s too cold in the morning for my computer to start up, and then sometimes, when it finally starts, your web browser freezes and eats your half-written blog posts which were apparently not saved all the way
Publishing Novels Traditionally: After the Agent
Okay, squiders! This’ll wrap up traditional publishing for novels, and then we’ll take a bit of a break before we jump into self-publishing novels. So let’s say you’ve gotten an agent if you wanted one. Your agent may work with
Publishing Novels Traditionally: The Submission Process
Continuing on from Monday’s post about the ways to have a novel traditionally published, and Wednesday’s post about agents. If you haven’t read those and also aren’t familiar with those topics, you might want to start there. So, let’s say
Publishing Novels Traditionally: Agents
The most common way to have a novel published traditionally is with the help of an agent. An agent is a representative for the author and their work who helps the author sell said work and hopefully get a good
Traditionally Publishing Novels: Two Paths
Okay, moving on to novels! (If you have any suggestions or questions on short stories, please let me know!) There are two routes one can take when publishing a novel traditionally. The first method is to get an agent, and
Amazon Singles (Hybrid Publishing for Short Stories)
I want to take a moment to discuss Amazon Singles while we’re talking about self-publishing short stories. Amazon Singles is a program you can submit your previously self-published or unpublished short stories and novellas (between 5000 and 30000 words). They
Self-Publishing Short Stories (Part 2)
Continuing from yesterday’s post. Just a reminder that there’s not really a submission process for self-publishing, since you make the decision on what you want to publish yourself, so this section mainly focuses on possible publication locations and how they
Self-Publishing Short Stories (Part 1)
All right, Squiders! Today we’ll start talking about methods for self-publishing a short story. Unlike “traditional” publishing, there is not really a submission process for self-publishing, since the only gatekeeper, in most cases, is yourself. You decide you’d like to
Publishing Short Stories Traditionally (Part 3)
Here’s our final stop on this particular story type/publication method combination, Squiders. Short Story Collections Like anthologies, short story collections are, as the name implies, a collection of short stories. The main difference is that an anthology features the work
Publishing Short Stories Traditionally (Part 2)
Continuing on from Tuesday. If you missed that post, I recommend clicking the handy link at the top or bottom of this entry (depending on whether you’re on the blog or website) or simply scrolling down and reading that one
