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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>9 days? That’s impressive. For how many words? Hubby’s record was 14 days for his NaNo 50K words, I think, but then there was a ton of editing. I beta read, but my sister acts as ruthless editor, and they have some grand battles when she comes to visit. Serves them both right – she got him to sign up for NaNo the first time during a Scotch-fueled Saturday evening debate over something or other. I, OTOH, was drinking cognac and stayed out of it <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dennisf63<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> ipg-smz@netpress.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I do want to make it very clear that this is the FIRST book I have ever self published. Most of them were flat fee, no royalties. <br><br>That said, back in the 70s it was a lot easier to get published, really by a publisher published, than it is today. I got paid $500 for my first porn novel, got up to as much as $750 for them. I typed the first draft, my wife edited and retyped a clean copy and off it went. I even had one editor that paid me in advance once when $$ were tight. <br><br>Sidebar: The fringe benefits of that arrangement made for a lively marriage, but it was all fiction. Regardless of what I wrote Peggy and I were together for 50 years and we never strayed. <br>I did have a rather liberated old aunt I sent a book to and she said we must have a very interesting marriage. We did, just the two of us. <br><br>Fastest turnaround? I think it was maybe 9 days from my first key stroke to the post office. <br><br>On 01/09/2019 02:23 PM, Christine Hall wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>On 1/9/19 2:02 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote: <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>My husband has self-published 6 novels - it's quite do-able. The hard part <br>is generating the words (he got his kick in the pants via NaNoWriMo). <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Dennis Fowler<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>P. O. Box 70<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Otego, NY 13825<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:dennisf63@wildblue.net">dennisf63@wildblue.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>