Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 392
June 26, 2016
Do you have any advice for a new/never been published author? I have a manuscript but I'm not sure what to do next. I know I need an editor though. Is self publishing a good thing? How did you get published? (I bought your books and I loved them by the way
Definitely get an editor.
I’d work first with someone who has a good grasp of novels and language, someone you trust, who isn’t afraid t o give you constructive criticism and liberally use a red pen (or red markups in a word processor, you know what I mean).
I decided to skip the big publishers and go straight to self publishing after I read a 2013 report on self-publishing stats. I have greater control over the look and feel of my books, the content, the distribution, and honestly, higher royalties. It is pretty funny watching where the book pops up, though. Like how I just found out that Kinokuniya in Malaysia carries Receiver of Many, like yesterday (Thank you expanded distribution!) The downside to self publishing is that I’m my own agent, my own PR and marketing, and my own legal team.
As for YOU getting published, there’s lot of options out there. I personally chose to use Createspace to publish and distribute the paperback, and KDP and Smashwords to publish the ebook. All of them are free to use, variably difficult to navigate (smashwords = easiest, KDP = nightmarish). I would also get your books their own ISBN through Bowker. You will need one for the paperback and one for the ebook (some also say you need one if it’s a Kindle vs. an Epub file, but I didn’t find that necessary). I was able (through all three sites) to get a preorder for each book, and I assure you that getting the paperback preorder set up is a TREMENDOUS pain in the ass.
But first things first, get a reliable editor, one who’s also going to give you solid content feedback as well as fixing grammatical errors. The rest will fall into place. After all, you already did the hard part, finishing the manuscript! Everything after the initial outpouring of blood sweat and tears is kinda cake.
Do you have any advice for a new/never been published author? I have a manuscript but I'm not sure what to do next. I know I need an editor though. Is self publishing a good thing? How did you get published? (I bought your books and I loved them by the way
Definitely get an editor.
I’d work first with someone who has a good grasp of novels and language, someone you trust, who isn’t afraid t o give you constructive criticism and liberally use a red pen (or red markups in a word processor, you know what I mean).
I decided to skip the big publishers and go straight to self publishing after I read a 2013 report on self-publishing stats. I have greater control over the look and feel of my books, the content, the distribution, and honestly, higher royalties. It is pretty funny watching where the book pops up, though. Like how I just found out that Kinokuniya in Malaysia carries Receiver of Many, like yesterday (Thank you expanded distribution!) The downside to self publishing is that I’m my own agent, my own PR and marketing, and my own legal team.
As for YOU getting published, there’s lot of options out there. I personally chose to use Createspace to publish and distribute the paperback, and KDP and Smashwords to publish the ebook. All of them are free to use, variably difficult to navigate (smashwords = easiest, KDP = nightmarish). I would also get your books their own ISBN through Bowker. You will need one for the paperback and one for the ebook (some also say you need one if it’s a Kindle vs. an Epub file, but I didn’t find that necessary). I was able (through all three sites) to get a preorder for each book, and I assure you that getting the paperback preorder set up is a TREMENDOUS pain in the ass.
But first things first, get a reliable editor, one who’s also going to give you solid content feedback as well as fixing grammatical errors. The rest will fall into place. After all, you already did the hard part, finishing the manuscript! Everything after the initial outpouring of blood sweat and tears is kinda cake.
June 25, 2016
kata-chthonia:
Destroyer of Light, an erotic romance about...
Destroyer of Light, an erotic romance about Hades and Persephone and the sequel to Receiver of Many, debuts on March 20, 2016.
Available for Preorder in Paperback and eBook
June 24, 2016
A few snippets from The Thrice Plowed Field, due 9/22/16,...
A few snippets from The Thrice Plowed Field, due 9/22/16, are posted on my Facebook page as part of a tagged author thingie :)
Go read them.
:o I ordered it ( the destroyer of light ) yesterday, it should come in tomorrow :D
Yay! :D
I hope you enjoy the paperback! I think I had more fun putting that together than I did the ebook. The cover art is by the fantastically talented ms.morgan graphic design. You should check out her all her other design work, too.
Also, by “fun to out together” I mean it was a delightful pain in the ass that totally engaged all my anal retentive and font loving tendencies, simultaneously deighting me and driving me completely insane.
hey! i've been getting into the myth of Hades and Persephone again and came across your book. i skimmed it on Amazon and really want to pick it up, but i must ask, are there any detailed descriptions of pregnancy or childbirth? i saw a few mentions from wh
There are a few mentions here and there in the books, mostly by Demeter talking about Persephone. But as far as detailed descriptions, no. The most you should encounter in either Receiver of Many or Destroyer of Light are a sentence long and usually embedded within the dialogue.
The few mentions you read are about as detailed as it gets throughout both books. I can’t promise that about future novels, though.
hey! i've been getting into the myth of Hades and Persephone again and came across your book. i skimmed it on Amazon and really want to pick it up, but i must ask, are there any detailed descriptions of pregnancy or childbirth? i saw a few mentions from wh
There are a few mentions here and there in the books, mostly by Demeter talking about Persephone. But as far as detailed descriptions, no. The most you should encounter in either Receiver of Many or Destroyer of Light are a sentence long and usually embedded within the dialogue.
The few mentions you read are about as detailed as it gets throughout both books. I can’t promise that about future novels, though.
hey! i've been getting into the myth of Hades and Persephone again and came across your book. i skimmed it on Amazon and really want to pick it up, but i must ask, are there any detailed descriptions of pregnancy or childbirth? i saw a few mentions from wh
There are a few mentions here and there in the books, mostly by Demeter talking about Persephone. But as far as detailed descriptions, no. The most you should encounter in either Receiver of Many or Destroyer of Light are a sentence long and usually embedded within the dialogue.
The few mentions you read are about as detailed as it gets throughout both books. I can’t promise that about future novels, though.
hey! i've been getting into the myth of Hades and Persephone again and came across your book. i skimmed it on Amazon and really want to pick it up, but i must ask, are there any detailed descriptions of pregnancy or childbirth? i saw a few mentions from wh
There are a few mentions here and there in the books, mostly by Demeter talking about Persephone. But as far as detailed descriptions, no. The most you should encounter in either Receiver of Many or Destroyer of Light are a sentence long and usually embedded within the dialogue.
The few mentions you read are about as detailed as it gets throughout both books. I can’t promise that about future novels, though.
