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How’s New Year treating you? We’re not halfway into January, yet already I’m jumpy over how it’s galloping by. Forget resolutions — I’m resolutely non-lutious, cuz making those would freak me out worse. At this point in my search for representation of the three novels I’ve written, I’m querying my ‘A list,’ deciding a deadline for if I should move onto ‘B list,’ and another for if it’s best to self-publish.
People who talk about how great self-publishing is are correct. But the magic (though not as simple as many imagine) of taking the helm of one’s publishing destiny applies to non-fiction topics and genre fiction categories that are easily googled. Marketing literary fiction, by contrast, is as google-able as the ocean is wide. Sure, one-in-a-gazillion Lotto winners exist. Set that aside for a moment, though. Think on Coca Cola or McDonald’s or whatever huge corporation that’s got plenty of name and brand recognition, moreover seats in cultural…