Pieces of Mind by Vincent Zandri

Author:Vincent Zandri [Zandri, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bear Memoir
Published: 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Why I Still Publish Traditionally

No I don't live under a rock.

I'm well aware that the "in thing" these days is to self-publish. Jeeze, remember the golden olden days (like 6 months ago . . .), when an author who even muttered the words "self-published" was considered the worst kind of vain vermin, especially to MFA in Writing School types and college poetry professors?

Well, the world has changed and more than one self-published author, Amanda Hocking among them, have gone from absolute nobodies to multi-millionaires within a period of about a year. Having sold more than a million of her paranormal thrillers on Kindle and E-Book, Amanda just signed a deal worth two mill at St. Martin's Press. Big news in New York City, not to mention a watershed event of Tsunami proportions.

But wait a minute . . . hold the phone. Didn't I just point out that the cool thing to do these days is to self-publish? And why would a writer who is already making a million bucks decide to upset the "program" if you will, and make the switch to a traditional major publisher?

In a word: TIME.

Upon accepting her new deal, Ms. Hocking expressed a desire to spend her day "writing" and not formatting HTML and designing covers. Self-publishing might place all the control and money into the author's pocket, but it's a mammoth time sucker.

Which brings me to my original point. Why do I still publish traditionally when I could double my royalties by going DIY?

TIME.

I'm both a journalist and a fiction writer. I write and edit more than 36 small pieces per month, plus write three "professional" blogs (these blogs are more like full-length articles), and in addition, maintain my own growing blog. And, at present, I have three books going plus I'm expecting a galley proof for my forthcoming new novel The Concrete Pearl. On top of this, I have to begin roughing out what will be the sequel to "Pearl." Plus I have kids, I travel a lot, and I like to work out, eat, and drink . . . In other words, I want to have a life, not a live-in-significant-other relationship with my freakin' computer.

Therefore I have an agent (or in my case agents . . .), and I have a publisher (or three) who edit, publish, and distribute my books for me, and in exchange they take percentage of each sale, because they deserve it.

Like I already said, I ain't living under a rock these days, and any publisher, from small indie to the biggest major, which is faring well in the marketplace knows that the book producing paradigm has changed significantly. Publishers are no longer Gods living high up on "You can't get there from here mountain!" They've become humbled as of late, and therefore, their attitudes on the working relationship with the author has shifted from Land Owner/Indentured Servant to Partner/Partner.

Nowadays an author provides the publisher with great work, and the publisher provides the author with great and necessary services.

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