Looking for a publishing house

[hooplala]

Cram, was this on Facebook, or just intrepid RL investigation on your friend's part?

[Cramulus]

intrepid RL investigation. Sorry for the facebook verbiage. 

[Jack Grants]

I totally agree, Cramulus. At first, I was just sending manuscripts at random but I'm sure some publishing houses never even started reading it. Now I try to contact them first to know if they could be interested but it's not so easy to find in the humorous weird fiction genre. Hence my post on here.

[Dr Goofy]

Yes, Dr Goofy, any tips ?

Just making a bad joke!

As for publishing I know a lot of self publishing crap.

Best idea is read up on this site http://www.fearlessbooks.com/PublishingGuide.html

[Jack Grants]

Thanks Dr.

[Dr Goofy]

anytime!

[Suu]

If anything, Lulu at least gets you in-print for free unlike most self-publishers that will charge you like $400+ to get started. I have my book through Lulu and I've had decent success with it. You can pay them for an ISBN number and they will distribute to Amazon.com, BN, Borders, etc. Plus, once you can show you've sold x amount of copies, that helps when you propose to the big publishers.

It's not easy. It may not be cheap. But the trick is to stay very diligent. This is something I've done a good amount of research on for my own writings.

Good luck!

[Jack Grants]

Thanks Suu, I'm gonna keep looking for publishing houses for now and the Lulu type of publishing might be useful if nothing else works.

[hooplala]

Personally, when I get my next book finished I am going to publish through Lulu... I'm sick of the way the publishing industry works, and would like to try to change it.

For some reason it is perfectly reasonable and respectable to produce your own music album, but if you publish and distribute your own book you are considered some sort of hack, which seems blatantly stupid to me.  At least if I publish my own book I can completely control the content, the layout, the cover design, and ultimately the distribution.  There is a major bookselling store line in Canada that I think I could talk into carrying my book, but my main focus will be making sure every used bookstore I go to will have a copy.  Fuck publishers.

[Cramulus]

the conventional logic is that the publishing industry is a quality-filter, and only books worth reading will make it past the filter. But this is the Information Age, and self-publishing is the peer-to-peer networking of print.

[hooplala]

the conventional logic is that the publishing industry is a quality-filter, and only books worth reading will make it past the filter. But this is the Information Age, and self-publishing is the peer-to-peer networking of print.

It just seems odd to me that this same bias doesn't seem to affect musicians producing their own work.  Even new musicians for the most part.

[Cramulus]

maybe it's because people have been recording their own music since like Edison

but printing and distributing your own books without an industry hookup is a very new phenomenon




If we ever see a self-published book on the NY Times Bestseller list, we'll know we've broken that barrier.

[hooplala]

Quite true.

Well, I'm going to try...

[Jack Grants]

Courageous initiative, BAWHEED, I understand your point of view.