{"id":6640,"date":"2009-12-19T04:12:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2015-04-13T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T02:00:24","slug":"writing-your-book-vanity-presses-self-publishing-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/writing-your-book-vanity-presses-self-publishing-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing your book? Vanity presses, self publishing, publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I emailed last week with Cassandra Yorgey<\/a> upon the topic of friends who self publish, to understand the implications of using LuLu<\/a>, a vanity press, versus a traditional publishing model. It’s important to be clear on what it is and what the differences are because vanity presses are sometimes deceitful.\u00a0 I told her that I have friends all the time who are working on books and ask me about book publishers, which I know zilch about.\u00a0 But some seem to think Lulu is the way to go.\u00a0 Not wanting to be an author, I don’t care enough about it to want to research it myself. I asked her is there somewhere I could refer them to?\u00a0 Is there a good site or blog post that gives helpful basic info to the ones who ask me to be referred somewhere for info?<\/p>\n

Cassandra Yorgey<\/a> responded: “I generally send people to Writers Beware<\/a> first.\u00a0 Self-publishing doesn’t tend to get credit as a professional reference and rarely earns back the money invested into it. A general rule of thumb is that money should flow *towards* the writer, not away. I would suggest to anyone who has a completed manuscript that querying a literary agent would MOST LIKELY be a better use of their time. Not always, but most likely.<\/p>\n

Very recently Harlequin<\/a>, a noted romance publisher, made the mistake of opening a vanity-pub branch and got kicked out of all the respectable groups like SFWA<\/a> and RWA<\/a>. Here’s<\/a> a pretty accurate discussion of how the industry feels about that.”<\/p>\n

I get so many requests about how someone may get their book published, and I was glad to get this info to share.\u00a0 I’d like to hear your experiences.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0 New self publishing authors: don\u2019t let friends proofread, hire a professional<\/a>
\nPublish traditionally, solo self-publish or something else?<\/a>
\nNew Authors: How not to fall for an editing\/publishing scam<\/a>
\nBook not selling? You can\u2019t blame Amazon for what you attract<\/a>
\nCasper asks about ghostwriting<\/a>
\nGhost Writing, Being Behind the Scenes, Keeping a Secret<\/a><\/p>\n

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