Good and Cons of publishing by Marcel Ray Duriez

"Cons of publishing, hello book nerds this is Duriez I'm a writer of science fiction fantasy and romance and more...

In my book is coming out in the fall of 2020, I have showcased my writings.

I also worked as a literary editor and still do on this episode... we're going to talk all about the pros and cons of publishing... we will be doing the pros and cons of publishing and we will be doing the pros and cons of traditional publishing an in that, I'll be talking about my decision to publish my debut young adult fantasy but if you're new here and you don't know what the heck are these publishing options are and you never heard of any of these things before, where we talked about the different publishing paths available to the modern writer.

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So, let's start off with the pros, I will be going through a list of all the pros that I personally could think of this is not an exhaustive list but will talk about the pros and I could think of and then we'll move to the cons I hate to end it on a negative note but that's just how that stays at blogger will be structured hope you guys find it helpful and of course, if there's anything that I miss if you publish or traditionally published...

Then you're like hey there's this thing that you didn't talk about leave those in the comments below we might have a future discussion kind of like also I feel like this is like the pros and cons before I've actually published so there might be new things that I discover along the way in my own journey so again leave anything you think of in the comments...

Then below now let's actually be in the list Phone number one it kind of feels a heck of a lot like seizing your destiny I know this is going to sound kind of cliche and kind of dramatic but that's quite literally the feeling that many authors get is that they don't have to wait for the gatekeepers the literary agents and the publishing professionals like editors of publishing houses to give them that thumbs up to publish a book you're literally taking control of your book on your story and you're just going for it in many ways publishing is freeing for that reason the 2nd row that...

I have written down is that you don't have to query a literary agent querying is tough and emotionally taxing because you have to sift through all these rejections and still hold on to your self worth and being a little dramatic here but when you're querying right so a lot of people will query anywhere from let's say 30 agents is kind of the average I would say 200 two hundred queries personally I think 200 queries is outrageous I can think of 200 publishing professionals that I think would be a good fit...

Then for me in my story however that's potential will say 100 queries where you send them to a literary agent and queries or a one-page cover letter she sent as part of this mission to a publishing professional called a literary agent who you're pitching your books to an if they represent you then the agent will picture book she published at publishing houses just kind of the structure of traditional publishing thus if you're publishing you don't have to query a literary agent and potentially at hundreds of rejections but just make you feel crummy because you like and then you get these rejections which we've discussed in previous videos to check them all out we've talked about kind of why people get rejections but you know these rejections have nothing to do with the quality of the writing but she was the writer my second-guessing...

I'm tired I'm showing haven't started in my place you have all these things we second guess yourself in your story and it might have nothing to do with the quality of your work that and a lot of the policies at literary agencies when you carry them is a no response equals a projection so it's kind of waiting in the wondering like I like you it's months so when you're playing a literary agent I want to say the average turn around time is 6 to 8 weeks and that's on the quicker side and the typical time where you just hear back from the cold query is about 3 months I would say so that's just for the initial submission which is a query letter maybe the first five pages 1st chapter of your book and a synopsis which is the one to two-page document where you summarize everything in your book after that 3 months point of waiting then you have to maybe send a partial if the agent is interested in it or a full manuscript again if the agent is interested in and if not then you like right now...

I guess in that minutes back to queries and anyways I'm ranting now but it is emotionally taxing this comments it shouldn't have to do that pro #3 to publishing is that you have control over the content of the book lectures on publishers don't take risks on things like a genre mashup because booksellers just don't know where to put it on the bookshelf and therefore publishers aren't going to purchase it because the booksellers won't take it and actually sell the book so as a published writer you have the freedom to kind of bend and break the rules of traditional genre fiction you also have the freedom to write a series...

Then so if you are trying to traditionally publish a book and you're like I have the series of my hat and I'm so excited about it which is hate to live in there if you get a literary agent and the agent sells the 1st book in a series to a publisher maybe the 1st book doesn't sell as well as you thought you don't turn out your advance and the publisher problem is one book 2 and therefore they have the rights to book one and a lot of times it can take a lot of years to get those rights back if at all which means you probably can't write book 2 or if you do write a book to its many years later...

Then and then you also don't have control in a book once do things like a loss leader where you give the 1st book away for free to entice people to read the rest of the series anyways you have control over writing a series is what I'm saying our next Pro is control over the publishing timeline now compared to traditional publishing I feel like I'm talking about traditional publishing a lot in this but in traditional publishing, you have no control let's say it takes 6 months a year many years to get a literary agent and then you might do a year or so on submission where the agent sends your book to editors at publishing houses and then let's say you get picked up which is the best-case scenario and a lot of times folks...

Then just simply don't get picked up the editor picks up your book and they're going to publish it and then it's 2 years later so that's potentially I don't know five or six years between writing the book querying the agent and it actually being on the bookshelves available for readers takes a long time in traditional publishing for your book to get published if you are an agented writers' publishing you don't have to worry about any of that so it's really all about that."