Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 4:18:54 GMT
Have you ever published with a publishing house ? How much money did he ask you to publish your book? Indeed, who recommended you to publish ? Because in Italy it works like this: if you want to get something, you either pay or you have to find someone who recommends you. And the world of writing and publishing is certainly no different. Anyone who enters my blog today for the first time will form a bad opinion of me. Those who know me, however, know that I use black sarcasm, starting from the title of the article. Article born after a heated discussion with someone who held the absolute truth, commenting on my post on the reasons for not choosing self-publishing (which according to him provided false information). The comments were deleted, because they contained slander and insults towards myself, which were then continued in private.
But let's get to the point. How and when to choose self-publishing I've already written several articles about self-publishing , so I don't want to repeat myself. The choice cannot be dictated by a fallback: the publishing Special Data houses have always rejected my novel and so I publish it on my own. The choice must be made considering all the aspects that self-publishing entails , above all accepting the fact that it is entrepreneurship , therefore costs must be incurred , at least if you want to create good books. Do I need to be recommended to publish with a publishing house? And now let's get back to the topic of the article: do you really publish with a publisher only thanks to someone's recommendation ? In 2012 a publishing house accepted my manual on blogging (which it then rejected) In 2015, another publishing house published my essay on blogging In 2017, another publishing house accepted one of my stories to publish as an ebook (which I then didn't publish) Am I recommended? No, never been, actually. Yet that's what they told me the other day.
Adding that I have to provide proof of having published without recommendation or without having paid money to the publisher - the fact that in Italy one is innocent until proven guilty is a negligible detail. The person who spouts such nonsense is not a child, as one would expect, but an adult, to whom some publisher, or rather some printer, has asked for money for the publication. And he also mentioned a name, the name of a publishing house that asked him for money: a Google search was enough for me to immediately find that publisher on the «Writer's Dream» forum, archived among paid publishers . And from here it takes a moment to lump everything together: all Italian publishing houses publish by asking authors for money or, for free, under recommendation . When an author stumbles upon a paid publishing house There's only one thing to do: send them to hell. If I have to spend money to publish with a publisher, then I self-publish: at least I have total control over all my work.
But let's get to the point. How and when to choose self-publishing I've already written several articles about self-publishing , so I don't want to repeat myself. The choice cannot be dictated by a fallback: the publishing Special Data houses have always rejected my novel and so I publish it on my own. The choice must be made considering all the aspects that self-publishing entails , above all accepting the fact that it is entrepreneurship , therefore costs must be incurred , at least if you want to create good books. Do I need to be recommended to publish with a publishing house? And now let's get back to the topic of the article: do you really publish with a publisher only thanks to someone's recommendation ? In 2012 a publishing house accepted my manual on blogging (which it then rejected) In 2015, another publishing house published my essay on blogging In 2017, another publishing house accepted one of my stories to publish as an ebook (which I then didn't publish) Am I recommended? No, never been, actually. Yet that's what they told me the other day.
Adding that I have to provide proof of having published without recommendation or without having paid money to the publisher - the fact that in Italy one is innocent until proven guilty is a negligible detail. The person who spouts such nonsense is not a child, as one would expect, but an adult, to whom some publisher, or rather some printer, has asked for money for the publication. And he also mentioned a name, the name of a publishing house that asked him for money: a Google search was enough for me to immediately find that publisher on the «Writer's Dream» forum, archived among paid publishers . And from here it takes a moment to lump everything together: all Italian publishing houses publish by asking authors for money or, for free, under recommendation . When an author stumbles upon a paid publishing house There's only one thing to do: send them to hell. If I have to spend money to publish with a publisher, then I self-publish: at least I have total control over all my work.