The Captain's all-week bar and café is open again, so come along and join the gathering. This morning I'm going to have a cappuccino with lots of chocolate powder sprinkled on top.
This week's topic is about the non-traditional routes of publication. I've heard them go by many names, including: self-publishing, print-on-demand, vanity-publishing, etc. What do you know about these methods? Would you consider using any of them? Have you used any of them? Are there other alternatives that I don't know about? What are the pros and cons of these things? |  |
I was inspired to reconsider this subject, after learning about all the things you are supposed to do in your first chapter of a novel. After a while, I started asking myself the question: Who am I writing this for? My target readership, or just the agent/editor? I don't have the answer yet, but I can't help thinking that if we follow all the "rules", then first chapters will start to become too formulaic, if they're not already. Any thoughts about that?
