In today’s Journal
* A few words of advice
* I recommend
* The numbers
A few words of advice for those who are sticking to their guns re traditional publishing — I recommend you subscribe to the Authors Publish Magazine newsletter. It’s free, and at least once each week they do a write-up on markets that are open to submissions in various genres, both literary and commercial.
I had toyed with the idea of sending one of my novels the tradpub route. However,I have learned how to do everything myself; as a result I retain all net royalties plus ownership of my copyright. To me, personally, that’s important.
So I’m no longer entertaining the notion of submitting work to even small tradpubs who accept unagented submissions.
In my case, I stall when I see their requirements: royalty share, the fact that they get my work into fewer sales venues than I can, and slickly worded language regarding ownership of my copyright.
But if you’d rather not learn to do everything yourself, this might be a viable alternative.
Just trying to cover all bases here.
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I recommend reading the new comments on “The Math” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-math/#comments.
Then read “The Math Post… Some Additions” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-math-post-some-additions/.
I also recommend “How Do You Keep Track When WITD” and the comments at https://prowriterswriting.com/how-do-you-keep-track-when-witd/. Good stuff there, including at least three ways of creating what I call a “reverse outline.”
For those of you who might find it useful, here’s an offer from Steven Pressfield: https://blackirishbooks.com/jabs. (I’m not an affiliate and get nothing from this referral.)
If you’re interested in writing SF, you might want to check out “Artificial Intelligence is Your Mentor” (a short video) at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/artificial-intelligence-is-your-mentor/. Wow. I’ll be watching this one a few times.
For more inspiration, see “The Universe in a Sentence: On Aphorisms” (and the comments) at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/the-universe-in-a-sentence-on-aphorisms/.
That’s all for today. Talk with you again later.
The Numbers
Total fiction words for the month……… 3753
Total fiction words for the year………… 378406
Total nonfiction words for the month… 11300
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 258010
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 636416
Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 2
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 195
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31