From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
       
   I've been sent a contract for my kid's horror story. There's no advance and   
   the terms are not particularly great. The company is not well known, the   
   jackets are terrible and i am wondering if it might not be better to self pub   
   or try to pub through some    
   kind of author's collective for kid's stuff.   
      
   I was going to self pub it because it isn't the kind of thing my agent reps   
   and then, when I realised how time consuming it would be to self pub, I sent   
   it out to a few independents.    
   The least attractive of them got back first and positively.    
      
   I probably should have thought this through because I can't delay for long and   
   I don't have time to send it to a better house. Obviously I am an idiot, but   
   what do you think - is any publisher better than none?   
      
   Nicky   
      
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