Part 1 – Oh, the Vanity of it all! of this multi-post arc dealt with some folks I knew who vanity published their books back when we called vanity publishers “vanity publishers”.
Part 2 – Vanity/Self-Publishing provided an overview of Vanity and Self publishing.
I’ve talked with lots of self-published authors. They basically fall into four camps:
- Their plan A is to approach some set number of publishers/agents and, if everyone passes, plan B is to self-publish.
- They went straight to self-publishing and never approached a publisher.
- They were traditionally published, things changed (new editor(s), different production demands, change in publisher’s business model/plan, collapse in market, …) and they went the self-publishing route.
- They haven’t found a publisher who’ll take their work and gave up the traditional publishing route.
Note that camps 1 and 4 are not the same. Camp 1 is a plan of attack, camp 4 is an unplanned retreat. There’s one other camp and, so far as I know, I’m the only person in it. I’m sure there are others in here with me, I haven’t found them yet (big camp, few campers).
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