[Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

[Lynn Greiner]

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 😊

 

 

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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.  

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. 

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. 
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.  

Fastest turnaround? I think it was maybe 9 days from my first key stroke to the post office. 

On 01/09/2019 02:23 PM, Christine Hall wrote:

On 1/9/19 2:02 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote: 



My husband has self-published 6 novels - it's quite do-able. The hard part 
is generating the words (he got his kick in the pants via NaNoWriMo). 

 

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Dennis Fowler
P. O. Box 70
Otego, NY 13825
dennisf63 at wildblue.net <mailto:dennisf63 at wildblue.net> 
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