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"Follow the Money"
Back about two million years ago (as July, 2003 feels in blogtime), Teresa Nielsen Hayden posted to her blog a piece about self-publishing, vanity publishing, and the ways in which confidence artists prey on desparate unpublished writers.
It got a lot of comments.
Surprisingly, it is still receiving comments, including a recent recommendation of Jim Fisher's Ten Percent of Nothing, a forthcoming study of an agent who stole over $1 million from her "clients" over the course of the 1990s. (Link is to Amazon, who I hate, because B&N doesn't have the book listed yet.
If you've ever been tempted to self-publish, you should read the blog entry; if you're interested in publishing, you probably want to read the book when it comes out. There are excellent reasons to self-publish. There are also many, many reasons to take care before doing so.
It got a lot of comments.
Surprisingly, it is still receiving comments, including a recent recommendation of Jim Fisher's Ten Percent of Nothing, a forthcoming study of an agent who stole over $1 million from her "clients" over the course of the 1990s. (Link is to Amazon, who I hate, because B&N doesn't have the book listed yet.
If you've ever been tempted to self-publish, you should read the blog entry; if you're interested in publishing, you probably want to read the book when it comes out. There are excellent reasons to self-publish. There are also many, many reasons to take care before doing so.