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Originally Posted by ThatWriterGuy
Interesting -- my partner is a published children's book illustrator. Did you pitch you this around to agents/publishers before self publishing?
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Thanks for your responses guys and good luck with your own books.
I tried a few agents but most didn't want to know because the only publishing past I had was in a scientific journal. and none of them gave me a reason why. I did pay a known fantasy author to review the work so I knew it was not a load of crap. It had also been written and produced as a play before it was a book and was quite popular when it was put on.
As for publishers I had another book which was a review of Disney animated movies and that was with a publisher who basically held it for about a year and pissed me about because they kept prioritising other titles. then I was told the owner fell ill and they were just not moving forward with it. So I waited until the contract expired before publishing it myself here:
http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/phili...-22579245.html
I initially published that one through Publish Nation but when I discovered they were doing it through Lulu and that I could do it all myself for nothing I self published this new one.
I'm trying to market it by emailing bookshops like Waterstones but mostly independent ones. I may try emailing some schools but I'm not sure how fruitful that will be.
I wanted to turn both into ebooks but they keep getting rejected due to formatting. The Disney one I don't think I can do. Lulu offer a service to do it for you for $799 which converts to just over £600. Well I doubt I'd shift enough copies to justify that expenditure.
In short there is little money to be made from writing books these days, It can only really be done if you like writing.