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• Questions for you to think about:
  • What are your goals?<\/li><\/ul>
    • Why do you want to get into this?<\/li><\/ul>
      • What\u2019s realistic? What\u2019s it really going to take?<\/li><\/ul>
        • What are some pitfalls? What rewards am I hoping for?<\/li><\/ul>\n
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          • How thick is my skin?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Why indie?
            • Time between finishing a manuscript and seeing it in print\/for sale \u2013 you can take years to sell it to a publisher, then probably one to two years to see it in print. How often you can publish \u2013 which is as fast as you can finish it and prepare it for publication if you\u2019re on your own.<\/li><\/ul>
              • Control \u2013 you decide on everything \u2013 the genre (what categories you put it in), the editing, the cover, the blurb, when, where, how, marketing, etc.<\/li><\/ul>
                • Money \u2013 you get 100% of the profit. Almost 70 cents on the dollar for ebooks, vs about 10 cents on the dollar for traditional.<\/li><\/ul>
                  • What happens when your publisher decides you aren\u2019t worth the time to develop your career, you didn\u2019t earn out the advance, or they go out of business or stop publishing your genre?<\/li><\/ul>
                    • The state of the traditional publishing industry \u2013 the contracts are mostly awful, the politics, the mindset of the big 5.<\/li><\/ul>
                      • All of that said \u2013 there are a few good publishers out there. If Baen called me \u2013 I’d take that call in a heartbeat, and there are a few others. But I would still keep<\/a> publishing indie works, as well.<\/li><\/ul>\n
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                        • Also, libraries and bookstores are not off the table just because you are indie. I\u2019m in the SLCO library. I have plans to eventually get into bookstores, as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        • Recognize that this means you are now a small business owner. Check your ego at the door, roll up your sleeves, and deal with my cliches. Writing is work, running a business is work, you are your own boss, and the hours are going to suck. And the boss is a jerk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":166,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrecatpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}