This reel would make more sense with music!

Made on Insta, set to the music of D'Ye Ken John Peel.

Not that one...The one with the coat. 'With his hounds and his horn in the morning.'

It's an old Cumberland hunting song.

And the music went when I downloaded it.

Anyhow.

My point is I'm a lot more involved in the #literary scene in my home county these days because I admin for a wonderful community over on FaceAche.

Love spotting write-ups about them. 🤩

#WritingCommunity #TradPub #Indie

TIL: it's standard for authors to have to pay for the rights to license images that will appear in their books, even if the book is published by a trad publisher, even one of the Big Five.
#publishing #tradPub #books #bookstadon #AuthorsOfMastodon

I've been #Writing and #querying with #tradpub in mind for years, but I recently got a #LitRPG idea rattling around in my brain I can't seem to get rid of.

I feel like this is a subgenre fairly exclusive to #selfpub but all my publishing research had been in trad pub up till now.

So I'm coming to you all to ask questions & start a discussion: Any advice for someone newly looking into self publishing? I don't intend to rush this, but would love any resources or advice anyone has to offer!

* IF * you are trying to land a #tradpub deal #JewellNicole recommends going the #selfpublishing route first to build an audience. As less than 1% of queries lead to a book deal, Jewell advises that a proven, strong following is the best way to get noticed by #publishers .

Check out the podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PKiYVzIrAoUmgyuoQUc0i?si=eefad5186a3648b3

#indieauthor #indieauthors #IndiePubFTW #writing #writingcommunity #Author #authorcommunity #writer #writers @writers #WritersLife

For those of you here pursuing #tradpub, how many times are you querying/subbing before you stop? Or are you dedicated to continuing as long as you have to?

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

@jacob finish the draft, set it aside for 6 weeks, go through re-read it, make developmental edits, maybe start over, make grammar and line edits, get a few TRUSTED beta readers, do another round of edits, hire a professional editor, do another edit. Decide if you want to #selfpub or #tradpub. Prepare to be told NO a lot it’s okay. Keep writing

An #introduction, on this first day of trying this new thing out.
I'm a freelance writer, editor and book reviewer.

My research into productive author–editor relationships in creative #writing was published by Westerly 65.1.

Interested in how #tradpub can find its way in a #digital world. It's an opportunity for more rights and earnings to go to creators.

Another thing I didn't include in my #introduction is the type of books #AmWriting But it's a good thing not to dump too much of oneself at once?

My second novel (first #TradPub) used a technique called #MagicRealism (it's not a genre, and I'll post more later).

Just after I'd finished writing that one, I got accepted to do a #Masters. For two years I read every academic paper and book I could find on Magic Realism. #AmReading

I was researching if #Aboriginal authored magic realism actually existed, or were reviewers/readers reading our works through the white lens. And if it existed, how did the narrative speak of Country, kin, nonhuman others, and truth-telling.

Anyway, it all became too much (Covid, isolation, family responsibilities etc) and I've not submitted my thesis.

But I published a saga that applied magic realism. And now I'm writing #FirstNations #SpecFic short stories and a novel.

More on the novel (Where the Fruit Falls, 2020) here: https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/where-the-fruit-falls
#AusLit

If you have ever wondered how a properly run, honest indie #SmallPublisher works and how it can help you to get #tradpub, you might want to listen to their interview that the Indie Book Talk #podcast did with @TangentGeoff https://open.spotify.com/episode/56ObMuMEg9rI5rVp6bmWVu?si=EGt5jMZjS8OzFNV7VnzWZQ