“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” ― Seth Godin, Poke the Box
Do you think having a publisher or making a bestseller list guarantees that Hollywood producers will be interested in your work?
Think again. They know that publishing is a whole new game now, with a lot of amateurs playing it.
It’s just the tiniest bit disconcerting to run across things I said in an old blog post—a blog that is long dead and gone, BTW—in files I chose to preserve for some odd reason on dates that I’ll never know, except to say that I created them before January 17, 2014, which must’ve been the date I changed computers.
But I found them. And I’m pretty sure I wrote them and posted them on a blog I once had called Writing for Hire.
I ventured into self-publishing by accident really. I intended to release my out-of-print novel to get the work out there, for what it was worth. This was in 2009. At the time of its release, I discovered Kindle publishing (the only game in town, at that time). When Nook became available, I hopped onto that, too.
The volume of sales my book had at $0.99 turned out to be much higher than I could get when I priced the book higher. So even though I was earning a lower royalty rate, the volume of sales was so much higher, I was actually making more money.