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Originally Posted by AnnieB3
That's fantastic, Angell!!
What's the book about?
Make sure you read that contract thoroughly. Sometimes you want to keep the option of taking your book to the e-pub world as well. You need to retain control of all of your rights.
I've written a book as well, which I'm redoing a bit an is in final edits. It's about doctoring. 
It's useful, if you do an e-book, to have ISBN and LCCN numbers.
I hope it's a huge success!
Annie |
Hi Annie! (First thank you for your comments on the exercise thread too)
It is a spiritual allegory for young adults. I've described it as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe meets the Karate Kid.
I'm rather fortunate in this particular journey because it is my second book and I've been through the publishing process before - albeit with an entirely different type of book. I mentioned above that I worked for myself all my life - that book was basically a how-to book and the market was screaming for them when I wrote it. Demand got that book published, not an innate ability to write.
In fact, I'd be prepared to say that I am a fantastic storyteller but a horrid writer. 'Horrid' might be too harsh. So too, might 'fantastic'.
I'm pretty certain that he was so enthralled with the story that he failed to see the bad writing.
I'm doing the final edits now myself. I actually wrote a very clean first copy and it poured out of me. 102K words in twenty-nine days - and that's the copy I sent to the publisher. It was probably 95%+ finished copy - which I suspect is odd - but remember, I'm not a good writer. If I knew what I was doing I'd probably spend an entire draft simply fixing split infinitives. As it is, I don't even know what they are - I just heard them referenced recently.
Are you going to self-publish yours or send it out?