From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:06:15 AM UTC+1, Chris Dolley wrote:   
   > >"Nicky"  a �crit dans le message de    
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   > >I've been sent a contract for my kid's horror story. There's no advance and    
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   > >the terms are not particularly great. The company is not well known, the    
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   > >jackets are terrible and i >am wondering if it might not be better to self    
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   > >pub or try to pub through some kind of author's collective for kid's stuff.   
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   > >I was going to self pub it because it isn't the kind of thing my agent reps    
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   > >and then, when I realised how time consuming it would be to self pub, I    
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   > >sent it out to a few >independents.   
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   > >The least attractive of them got back first and positively.   
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   > >I probably should have thought this through because I can't delay for long    
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   > >and I don't have time to send it to a better house. Obviously I am an    
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   > >idiot, but what do you think - is >any publisher better than none?   
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   > Any publisher is definitely not better than none. An incompetent publisher    
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   > can damage your reputation in many ways and, to the average reader, any    
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   > mistake they find in the book is your fault not the publishers. So... crap    
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   > covers, poor formatting, typos, pricing too high, distribution cock-ups -    
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   > the ways a bad publisher can harm you are legion. And then you have the    
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   > potential nightmare of the bankruptcy debacle - if your publisher goes    
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   > bankrupt your book could become tied up as an asset for years as creditors    
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   > and the courts argue over what to do with it. Was it Nightshade that    
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   > recently collapsed? Whoever it was, I know the resulting uncertainty left a    
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   > lot of authors severely stressed.   
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   Thanks for that, Chris.   
      
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