From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Sunday, June 8, 2014 5:32:34 AM UTC-6, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
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   > > On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:17:25 AM UTC-6, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
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   > >> I'm a bit old fashioned about it and despite it taking me a long time to   
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   > >> worked hard for my traditional publishing deal and I happen to think it   
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   > >> who choose different routes.   
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   > > Part of the reason to chose a different route, to self-publish, is that   
   there are a limited number of professional venues, and professional "filters",   
   and they don't necessarily all have the same taste.  That an editor sends a   
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   incomprehension, and the next one and the next one send similar letters,   
   really doesn't mean that there isn't a readership for exactly your type of   
   story.   
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   > > Other writers chose a different route because publishers screw them over.    
   They've been traditionally published and know they're working at that level   
   and then the publisher screws up and sales tank and the writer gets put on a   
   "don't buy, doesn't    
   sell" list... or, like a local author who I believe will *never* go   
   self-published... the novel takes greater than five years from sale to   
   publication and "good business sense" says don't spend time writing five more   
   books in that setting if it *   
   eventually* turns out that readers don't buy a book with a crappy cover.    
   (Obviously I think that some authors *should* self-publish and that it's a   
   crying shame that they view it as illegitimate.)   
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   > In terms of Milford anyone self-publishing now who has been    
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   > traditionally published in the past qualifies anyway.   
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   > The problem is sorting the wheat from the chaff when someone chooses    
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   > (for whatever reason) to self-publish without ever having had any kind    
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   > of selective traditional publication. The range of talent (and    
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   > Jacey   
      
   Oh, absolutely.  I remember doing NaNoWriMo several years ago and among the   
   group I was in (not meeting in person, though some people do) there was one   
   person who, two weeks in, announced that she'd finished her 50K+ words and had   
   published it on Lulu.   
      
   And I'm thinking... it was so awesome you didn't even have to edit it?     
      
   Writing fast doesn't mean something is bad, but no author I know who writes   
   fast can then go on to skip the editing part.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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