My Experience With Self-Publishing a Novel
I’ve just published my short-story book, Horrorbook, on Amazon, which should go live at 5:30 a.m. Central time July 5. It was a huge pain in the ass to go over it and over it to get it right. The .mobi didn’t want to work, but thank God the .ePub did! Whew! About drove myself insane putting this thing up.
The reason I put out the first short-story book (there’ll be two) is because I didn’t want ya’ll to have to wait forever to be able to purchase a book by me. Also, I’ve been a full-time author six years come the last week of November 2013, and it would’ve been embarrassing not having a book. I’m going to have to wait to publish the novel till next year because it’s still being critiqued. Actually, there were two novels before the one I’m speaking of, but they were too taboo to self-publish without your truly getting arrested…maybe. I’m not for sure on that because I was subtle with the sex scenes, but one never knows. I know one thing: I’m not going to jail over a damned book. The five books I wrote when I was a newbie writer and a devil worshiper were bitter, putting it mildly, and perverted. So, scrapola.
It was important to me not to take a shitty deal with a small publisher for my ten serious novels, as well as the two short-story books, the novella, and the long short story. Really, an author has a right to be paid for his hard work. So, onwards and hopefully not downwards!
Seven of the short stories in the first book were published, but who cares what’s published (not me)? Mostly, big-deal industry personnel prefer trends and crap–especially agents–and putting out a high-quality book for a low price is important to me. More bang for your buck! It won’t be long before I lower the price to .99 instead of the $2.99 they made me start at, at least in America. I’ve found I’ve bought many books that were .99 when I didn’t have the money for a novel. These are titles I otherwise never would’ve discovered, and many of them–though self-published–were high quality. Power to the people!
Enjoy, constant and dear readers.
