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10 for 10 do not recommend that part of it. Anyways, If you got this far down my post, thanks for being the best kind of awesome! 13/13
I can actually say, if I knew then how hard I'd have had to fight for this dream. Younger me might've backburnered it and skipped the trad road altogether. Even though current me is like, yeah ok, I got this down, LFG. But, uh, yeah... a year and a half of rejections is ass. 12/?
That's fantastic by indie standards. But it shows that what I wrote, the way I wrote it works. And I'll admit I put a ton of effort into making that happen. The hardest part for me was learning how to sell it for what it is. I'll save that for later, but it didn't just happen by existing. 11/?
The reality is a lot of full requests end in rejection for the reason of the agent's or publisher's confidence in being able to sell that story, usually since they're sticking to what they know how to sell, what they specialize in. Hydra's Wake has sold over 8k copies in about 2.5 years. 10/?
But that's something to keep in mind regarding the trad-pub road; the publishers and agents are intentionally picky about what projects they take up. They're in it for the money, not the hopes/dreams. 9/?
When an offer does not include details about the marketing/advertising plan, that's not a great sign, and usually means the author will have to do the advertising work the same way an indie author has to. (And if you're going to have to do all the advertising, you might as well go indie) 8/?
It's not because I couldn't go trad, it's because there aren't any trad publishers out there who specialize with my niche, creature features, that can provide marketing support. 7/?
She picked up the story as it was because she liked it as it was and couldn't see it selling as a generic Sci-Fi. And quite frankly I felt the same way. But that's why I went indie, I wanted my story to be out there the way I wrote it, the way I am passionate about it. 6/?