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Saturday 26 November 2011

ebooks: Mars Mission or a Feeble Firework?

Dreaming about self-publishing ebooks? I already have that in mind for the updated version of Badgerman & Bogwitch. But what about launching the just completed, Key to Finlac into the unknown?

What does it take to become conventionally published?

There is a lot of luck involved. Once you have written a great and well-told story, you still need your book to land on the right desk at the right time and find the right gap in the list - as critical as a Mars landing. But there is little science to it - even less for the agentless author.

And as for self-publishing ebooks?

It's as exciting as Firework Night, but you are pointing your little rocket into the heavens. You are not even aiming at a planet. Be prepared. (I was a Boy Scout.) More than likely your dream is going to fall to earth unseen.

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