Comments on: Feedback from Self-Published Authors http://1writeway.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/feedback-from-self-published-authors/ I AM therefore I Write Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:30:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: 1writeway http://1writeway.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/feedback-from-self-published-authors/#comment-65 1writeway Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:15:13 +0000 http://1writeway.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-65 Patrick, thank you for leaving a blurb about your new book, and congratulations! I wish you the best of success. Patrick, thank you for leaving a blurb about your new book, and congratulations! I wish you the best of success.

]]> By: Patrick W. Emmett http://1writeway.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/feedback-from-self-published-authors/#comment-61 Patrick W. Emmett Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:25:09 +0000 http://1writeway.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-61 I have just self-published my new book, A Second Chance, Surviving Sudden Cardiac Death. The book is a dramatic look at my rescue from sudden cardiac death at 30,000 on an airplane and subsequent events. The book further looks at 35 other survivor stores and explores the after death experience. I self Published through Mill City Press. I started out with a little trepidation but after having gone through the entire process, I can now fully recommend Mill City Press as a great way for a first time author to get in print. So far the reviews of my book have been very flattering and I expect excellent distribution. I have just self-published my new book, A Second Chance, Surviving Sudden Cardiac Death. The book is a dramatic look at my rescue from sudden cardiac death at 30,000 on an airplane and subsequent events. The book further looks at 35 other survivor stores and explores the after death experience. I self Published through Mill City Press. I started out with a little trepidation but after having gone through the entire process, I can now fully recommend Mill City Press as a great way for a first time author to get in print. So far the reviews of my book have been very flattering and I expect excellent distribution.

]]> By: 1writeway http://1writeway.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/feedback-from-self-published-authors/#comment-47 1writeway Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:24:44 +0000 http://1writeway.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-47 Mr. Rinzler, thank you for stopping by and sharing your perspective from "the other side of the desk." It is heartening to hear that traditional publishers really do want to discover first novels. The challenge for the writer is how to get out of the slush pile and to the publisher's attention, if the writer wants to go the traditional publishing route (and I'm sure most if not all writers would prefer that). Personally, I found Ms. McFadden's story more inspiring because her self-published novel got the attention of a good agent and landed her a contract. Interesting that you would quote TS Eliot whose *The Wasteland* was printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's The Hogarth Press in 1923, which at the time was not a traditional publishing house. Mr. Rinzler, thank you for stopping by and sharing your perspective from “the other side of the desk.” It is heartening to hear that traditional publishers really do want to discover first novels. The challenge for the writer is how to get out of the slush pile and to the publisher’s attention, if the writer wants to go the traditional publishing route (and I’m sure most if not all writers would prefer that). Personally, I found Ms. McFadden’s story more inspiring because her self-published novel got the attention of a good agent and landed her a contract.

Interesting that you would quote TS Eliot whose *The Wasteland* was printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s The Hogarth Press in 1923, which at the time was not a traditional publishing house.

]]> By: Alan Rinzler http://1writeway.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/feedback-from-self-published-authors/#comment-46 Alan Rinzler Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:22:48 +0000 http://1writeway.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-46 I'm sure Daryl Pebbles has a good reason for his point of view, probably personal experience, but as an acquiring editor who began at S&S more than 46 years ago I can assure him that academic writing programs are by no means the primary source or farm system for first novelists. Publishers would like nothing more than to discover that first novel that comes out of nowhere, doesn't cost a fortune to acquire, and makes a big splash, the first of many if the author will remain in the fold. More first novels are published every year, more in 2007 than 2006, a solid indication of how desparately we want to find that great new writer. No kidding, it's really different on the other side of the desk. It's the publisher who needs and seeks the writer. The problem is, as TS Elliot said famously, most writers can't write. I’m sure Daryl Pebbles has a good reason for his point of view, probably personal experience, but as an acquiring editor who began at S&S more than 46 years ago I can assure him that academic writing programs are by no means the primary source or farm system for first novelists. Publishers would like nothing more than to discover that first novel that comes out of nowhere, doesn’t cost a fortune to acquire, and makes a big splash, the first of many if the author will remain in the fold. More first novels are published every year, more in 2007 than 2006, a solid indication of how desparately we want to find that great new writer. No kidding, it’s really different on the other side of the desk. It’s the publisher who needs and seeks the writer. The problem is, as TS Elliot said famously, most writers can’t write.

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