Lavender Bleu

@booksandbeakers

Traditional publishing. A traditional publisher won’t charge you anything, they’ll only take a cut of the profit when your book sells. Spending money on marketing would be the only expense.

Yes, I used KDP. I tried IngramSpark for my last book and gave up because it was such a pain and way more expensive, so I went back to KDP.…[Read more]

Why I Chose Indie Publishing

Why I Chose Traditional Publishing – Rachel Leitch

Traditional vs. Indie publishing

@booksandbeakers

M’kay, KP is liable to eat my post if I try to put links in it, so I’m going to lay everything out and then post individual links to each post I reference. I apologize in advance for how obnoxious that is, lol.

If you’d rather save money than time and you want a great-quality end result, traditional publishing is the way you…[Read more]

@felicity

I’ve self-published a standalone short story, two short story collections, and a novel. I prefer self-publishing, personally, for the freedom it provides and for the opportunity to work with my own choice of collaborators (editors, artists, etc.), but I would like to try traditional publishing down the road as well for the sake of…[Read more]

@felicity My pleasure!

I can’t figure out her tag. That’s frustrating. I’ll have to look into that.

But here’s a direct link to my post on her blog, as well, so you don’t have to scroll down and find it.

Got the tag wrong. @rachel-l? @rachel?

Anyway, here’s the post she wrote for my blog.

@felicity

I’ve self-published a standalone short story, two short story collections, and a novel. I prefer self-publishing, personally, for the freedom it provides and for the opportunity to work with my own choice of collaborators (editors, artists, etc.), but I would like to try traditional publishing down the road as well for the sake of…[Read more]

Oh, having reread North! Or Be Eaten I can say I enjoyed it much more this time around and I’m not sure why I didn’t like it as well the first time? It features a culture I enjoyed, more character development for Tink and Artham (a couple of my favorites), and several other fun additions (to the characters, world, and conflict). It’s still not as…[Read more]

I use Amazon/KDP. It’s been really easy and straightforward to use; my only complaint is that I don’t like having to support Amazon’s values by working with them. XP

I like the character/integrity of Vervante (an independent print-on-demand service), but they will cost you an arm and a leg; that’s why I didn’t publish with them,…[Read more]

Really? XD I mean, that’s cool, because I do try to be intentional with my portrayals of romance, but I didn’t realize it was such a prominent characteristic of my writing, lol.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any recent (a.k.a. well-written) romantic short stories besides those I’ve published (Lost Girl, namely, though to be honest it’s a little…[Read more]

Oh, that’s you! Cool! (I’m a bit slow to connect accounts across platforms sometimes, lol.)

If something else is working better and you’re enjoying it more, there’s nothing wrong with focusing on that for a while. A blog, like any other platform, is meant to serve you. If it’s not doing that yet, maybe it’s not a good fit, maybe it’s not a…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon

Viking braids are great. My sisters and I actually do a variation of one of them fairly often.

Ooh, nice!

Oh, nice question! They have developed much of their skills fighting the other group, but much of them were developed before the Dehgavor. You see, there used to only be many unconnected tribes, with most of them being…

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(Sorry if this posts in duplicate; I’m trying to navigate KP’s tendency to delete posts when I edit them. XP)

@elishavet-pidyon

Ooh, neat! I have a culture that avoids living on land, too, with more Maori and Hawaiian influence on the language and some Viking inspiration planned for their culture (and their hair, because Viking braids are…[Read more]