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Sunhawk posted...

gunplagirl posted...

smoliske posted...

Sunhawk posted...

like paying a girl to go on dates with you...

you speak from experience

Damn.

And at least self published people have the opion of pursuing an official publisher in the future.

What makes you think a proper publisher would take someone who is self-published seriously? I don't think that's the case.

Cocytus posted...

Of course you should.

Cocytus, you can be quite supportive sometimes.

Of course, that doesn't mean it's neccessarily going to happen. It looks difficult to do it.

I would probably know because I have about a dozen published friends. One of which is a ghost writer. Several others have been published multiple times and two were published by different publishing companies. If we count journalistic publications I also have 3 contributors to websites, one of which works for the company run by that kid from home alone, another who contributes to the Washington post, etc. And I've had 5 poems published, 3 in quarterly journals, 1 in a college newspaper and another in an anthology of queer artists.

The stigma only will happen if they read what you submitted, want to make you some big up and coming author, find out you self published before and

A) it was total crap
Or
B) it was good and they want to secure the rights to it

I suppose a few companies do discriminate but those are typically ones that publish all those "history of X war/ period/ country" books that college professors use (and usually because they were a contributor or person who wrote a review for it, making it so they do get some money for every X copies sold).

Basically, unless you hit it big, it's not an issue. And if it IS a concern, you can always self publish under a pen name, so long as you make sure it's through a company that actually allows you to retain the intellectual rights to the book itself.
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