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Self-published authors growing in confidence

1/9/2015

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Would-be authors are more comfortable with self-publishing, according to a recent article.

The Hartford Courant article says self-publishing has become much more affordable and democratic in recent years.

Self-published titles surpassed traditional books in 2008, and in the years since have increased by 437 percent, to nearly half a million books in 2013, according to the international publishing firm Bowker.com.

The article quotes Carl Pritzkat, who oversees self-publishing operations for Publishers Weekly. The firm set up a website booklife.com for indie books last year, which lists some 7,000 titles. The quality of self-published books is getting better and better, he states.

Hartford Courant feels that authors no longer see self-publishing as a stigma – and that they view the process of bypassing traditional publishing as positive – giving them greater independence and control over their work.

But that doesn’t mean self-publishing is easy. Successful self-published author Laura Noe (Travels With My Son: Journeys of the Heart) tells the Courant that she works hard and her book was vetted, repeatedly critiqued by a writer’s group and a writing coach, edited, and rewritten.

Other self-published writers believe that no one can do it better than they can. Connecticut's poet laureate Robert Rennie McQuilkin went into self-publishing because he did not like the design of his first book of poems, which was published by an established house.

Major houses won’t publish poetry because it is not a big seller, so more and more poets are looking at various kinds of self-publishing, he says in the article – and that even well-known poets are turning to it, for financial and design choice reasons.

Read the full article here.


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