Comments on: Astounding! https://grahamclements.com/astounding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=astounding Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 02 Dec 2024 05:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1164 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 04:34:03 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1164 Cheers Graham. There are always success stories of course. But out of those 225,000 novels, how many writers sold enough to qualify as a success? Probably 99% failures.
I know how much trouble I had moving copies of my books and that was with a legitimate publisher, albeit a small one. You have to be a really good active self promoter and I struggle with it.
It may work out for you if you decide to go down that path.

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1165 Mon, 22 Dec 2014 02:25:44 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1165 Anthony, I reckon you should have a go at self-publishing your novels. Graham Storrs and Dave Kitson both self-published their first novels and were noticed, now they have traditional contracts, and then there is Hugh Howey.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1166 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:18:44 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1166 Each to their own – the minute I self publish, the minute I will feel like a failure.

]]> By: The Fast Fingers https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1169 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:36:27 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1169 That figure is not impossible. Self-publishing has opened the door for aspiring writers.

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1186 Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:22:19 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1186 I found the number hard to believe too Anthony. I was wondering (hoping) if a lot of them are school students who are just doing class projects. The original newspaper article never said were the writer Jane Sullivan got her figures from, but I have had no reason to previously doubt her research.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1187 Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:17:23 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/astounding/#comment-1187 I cant believe those figures. 225,000? Where do they get this information? Probably multiple books each author but still. With traditional publishers moving away from doing what they used to, its a crazy time to try and do it the old fashioned way.And yet, with all of those books out there, how many people are actually buying them? Outside of one's 'social circle', I would estimate few have success. Bookstores still wont stock them. With those figures you can see why… and there is a lot of crap out there. Clearly not all. You've done your research, you know what constitutes a good book. Perhaps delve into the crime or romance sections and find a lot of average works.One needs a business strategy and good salesmanship to make something out of a self published book. Two things I'm not good at. Perhaps why my 7 unpublished novels remain just that.

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